00:00A police post near you could become operational in a matter of days.
00:05As the Homeland Security Minister confirms, three units are very near completion.
00:12We have three at this time, near completion.
00:1595% completed.
00:17We have three, the one at Grand Bazaar, the one at Toruba and the one at Eddie Hadgongs.
00:23And again we are looking at a date that will be set by the Prime Minister
00:27with respect that it is mobile unit opening.
00:32Alexander is dismissing concerns over staffing of the units,
00:36noting that both the Defence Force and the TTPS routinely have intakes.
00:43The staffing is a strategic arrangement between the police service and the Chief of Defence staff.
00:50So we are looking at recruits coming out next month.
00:54So I don't know whatever arrangement they will make before that in order to staff the units.
01:00If the units are in fact opening before the beginning of September, it is the case to me.
01:07Public discussion on the matter remains lively.
01:10However, according to the Minister, everyone wants a police post in their area.
01:15The numbers or the requests for mobile units in every part of Toronto-Tobago continues to increase.
01:25I am at now 398.
01:30Everybody wants a mobile police post.
01:34But decisions are still being made as to the possible sites.
01:37We are keeping that somewhat close to our chest because that will depend on the crime in the area.
01:44Together with, we are asking for information from the police CAPA unit
01:50for the statistics in terms of how the crime is operating in the area.
01:54But while we are waiting on and we are looking at the crime in the area,
01:58these units are not only to be used just for the purpose of preventing crime,
02:04but to foster good relationship, but also to foster good relationship
02:07between the police service, the defence force, members of the public.
02:13And the Minister is seeking to make one thing clear to the critics.
02:17The units are mobile, at least to some degree.
02:21When we say mobile unit, it is always a mobile unit.
02:24And it will always be a mobile unit.
02:26If today or tomorrow something happens in a different location,
02:29that we think that the mobile unit requires,
02:31the area requires the intervention of law enforcement,
02:35these things could be upped, dismantled, and moved again.
02:41It is as simple as that.
02:43Those are being made in such a way where you could take them up and move them?
02:49Wisconsin, there is no steel.
02:52There is no steel in the ground with the foundation that is holding this country there.
02:58If you want to call it a mobile unit, it is not something that is steel and a frame.
03:03At the end of the day, they sell us in movements.
03:05We pack up shop, close them, take the slides, fall apart,
03:08and then we move and we go on again.
03:10That is why it is called a mobile unit.
03:13Renasa Cutting, TV6 News.
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