The Homeland Security Minister is today replying to public criticisms that crime remains out of control with a spike in murders, kidnappings and major threats coming from within prison walls which have resulted in this country's second State of Emergency for the year.
00:00The Homeland Security Minister is today replying to public criticisms that crime remains out of control with a spike in murders, kidnappings and major threats coming from within prison walls, which have resulted in this country's second state of emergency for the year.
00:16Minister Roger Alexander told TV6's Morning Edition he believes the UNC government has handled the crime situation well, given the time the party has been in office.
00:25He admits that there are some challenges, but he says the government has strategies already in place to curb crime, and he promises that they will be effective and very impactful in the long term.
00:38We have challenges. We saw some kidnappings. The outcome of those kidnappings, well, you saw what the police had to do.
00:55In the protection of the victim and themselves.
01:02And the investigation continued. There are other persons to be arrested and charged.
01:10But I must still fill the emptiness left by the last 18 with respect to resourcing persons responsible and who we depend on to treat with crime and bring some level of stability and confidence to members of the public
01:39and to the country and to the country and to the country as a whole.
01:41And concerning the state of the nation's prisons, Minister Alexander blamed the last government, saying they neglected the security apparatus.
01:49There were items for the purpose.
01:54There were items for the purpose.
01:56What happened to those?
01:57There were certain technologies that were introduced
02:01to the jail.
02:05What happened to that?
02:09Mr. Hopkinson, this is just a problem
02:12that was left behind by an incompetent government
02:23that seems not to have any soft or comforting feeling
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