If you endeavour to prevent a police officer from arresting someone, then you are obstructing the officer from carrying out the law and this is an offence.
Inspector Michelle Lewis from the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service explains that anything preventing an officer from carrying out their duty gives the police the right to arrest that person.
Inspector Lewis says obstruction may be in words and/or in action. So, even people shouting or jeering at the police as they conduct their work can be seen as committing an offence. She says everyone should take note of this because the penalties for obstructing the police have been made harsher.
This, she explains, is evidence that those creating the law see stiffer penalties as a way of creating heightened respect for police authority.