00:00Deputy political leader of the National Transformation Alliance, Norman Dindial, maritime and security consultant,
00:06has a series of concerns over the joint army police force being set up across the country.
00:12The whole public in Trinidad and Tobago is looking at it.
00:16The procurement process and the approvals.
00:20Where is the cabinet move?
00:22Where is the budgetary allocation from the Ministry of Finance?
00:27When you're putting these things up, these things cost you.
00:30Who signed off on the legal authority for these things to happen, for soldiers to make arrests at these posts?
00:36Now, we are hearing and we know under a state of emergency, and we had a joint task force before,
00:41where police would be supported by army officers, by officers of the defense force.
00:48But they would provide the cordon and stuff like that.
00:51But actually, you need a police officer to do the arrest.
01:01We are seeing that these are not mobile police posts.
01:04These are infrastructure that are static.
01:06They're looking like checkpoints.
01:08And you're seeing the type of infrastructure that are going down into them.
01:11Now, here's something about it.
01:13If you want to make that mobile, you have to have vehicles.
01:16Where are the tenders for these vehicles coming from?
01:19Who's maintaining these vehicles?
01:21What are the budgetary allocations for the fuel for these vehicles?
01:26Dindial is estimating a cost of about $1 million per police post,
01:30and he does not believe it will aid in the fight against crime.
01:33Still to come in tonight's news, revealing email.
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