Vision & Mission Statement
Vision Statement
To become a first class institution by converting crime and security knowledge into cutting edge applications to serve today’s public safety challenges.
Mission Statement
To provide our students and agencies with the best multi-disciplinary knowledge in security and public safety and deliver training programmes that readily lift the intelligence and skills of our students so as to equip them to bring significant improvements in community security and public safety.
Objectives of the Institute
To establish an institution for the training, skill and intellectual development of the private and public security sectors as well as to undertake research, publications and community-directed education and service programmes for Trinidad and Tobago and the Caribbean.
Academic Head
Ian Kevin Ramdhanie- Academic Head
Mr. Ian Kevin Ramdhanie has over twenty years of experience in teaching, researching, developing public policy, and senior academic administration in tertiary level academic institutions in Trinidad and Tobago (Caribbean Institute for Security and Public Safety, The University of the West Indies and The University of Trinidad and Tobago). He obtained his B.Sc. (Hons.) and M.Sc. from UWI, St. Augustine Campus Trinidad and Tobago and is presently completing his Ph.D.
Mr. Ramdhanie was a member of several Cabinet-Appointed Committees to deal with crime, parole and crime policies in Trinidad and Tobago over the years. He is currently a member of the Private Security Network Commission of the Ministry of National Security since its inception.
Mr. Ramdhanie has written and published many scholarly papers on crime statistics, prison reform and rehabilitation, policing, white-collar crime and youth crime for example in journals as well as presented in many academic conferences in the USA, France, Spain, South Africa and across the Caribbean. He has worked jointly with other scholars on projects with the United Nations Office of Drug Control and the Inter-American Development Bank. Mr. Ramdhanie has notable experience in the development and implementation of academic and training programmes in the criminology, security and public safety fields.