Police Barracks Ground

What sets the ground apart from the rest of Port of Spain's football venues is what it belongs to: a working police barracks. The pitch sits inside the St James Police Barracks compound on the Western Main Road, and the club that calls it home, Police F.C., carries the same institutional roots — a team founded and run within the force rather than drawn from the neighbourhood.

The barracks themselves date to 1827, though nothing in the record fixes when the ground within the compound was first laid out for football, so that part of the story stays untold. What is documented is the resurfacing: the pitch was relaid with 3G astroturf in a reconstruction that ran to roughly TT$680,000, carried out under the oversight of the police commissioner. Reports on the finished surface place it around 2021, though the record does not give an exact completion date.

At 1,000 seats, it is a small ground by national standards, built for a club side rather than for crowds drawn to a fixture. No former name for the venue turns up in the sources, and nothing marks it as a host for matches beyond Police F.C.'s own.