Barbados Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley has called for a major deepening of regional collaboration in the battle against crime including the sharing of judges, magistrates and forensic facilities, closer interaction among police forces and putting in place a regional arrest warrant.

Miss Mottley was speaking at a high-level regional crime fighting conference being held in Trinidad Tobago.

It is also being attended by Attorney General, Dale Marshall, Minister Responsible for Crime Prevention, Corey Lane, and Police Commissioner Richard Boyce.

In addition, Miss Mottley proposes an overhaul of the rules under which the Barbados police force operates.

The meeting is being hosted by Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister, Dr. Keith Rowley, who is Chair of the Committee on Security within the Caricom Heads of Government Group.

Delivering welcome remarks as the conference opened this morning, Dr. Rowley declared that the region is under siege and that the war against crime cannot be lost.