Profiles: Heroes, Role Models and Pioneers of Trinidad and Tobago - by Nasser Khan

128 Public Service JOHN BRIERLY (Around 1835-1915) H e was one of five members of the Royal Irish Constabulary who, in 1874, were appointed to various posts in the Trinidad Police to help reorganise the force. He was assigned to the detective branch, which had been set up in 1862 for which the newspapers praised his clever and extraordinary work. In the 1890s he became Senior Inspector and laid out Port ofSpain and San Fernando into ‘beats’. During his thirty years in the police force, he travelled throughout the island, establishing a police system which was modeled mainly on the lines of the Royal Irish Constabulary. He was the author of Trinidad Police Manual (1879) and Trinidad Constabulary Manual (1907) . He also published a book, Trinidad Then and Now (1912) . RANDOLPH BURROUGHS (1930-1996) H e was the former police commissioner of Trinidad and Tobago in the late 1970s and 80’s before his fall from grace. He began his police career in 1950. During the early seventies, he was the leader of the flying squad that made quite a name for itself by stopping criminals and criminal activity of the day. In 1969 he received the Medal of Merit Gold and in 1980, the Trinity Cross. EDWIN W. CARRINGTON (1939- ) H e is the former Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), serving from 1992–2010. Tobago-born, he has