00:00Homeland Security Minister Roger Alexander gave Express journalist Ana Ramdas a tour of a recently constructed joint police-military post
00:09at the Teruba overpass the day after he told the TV6 News that post, the one at the Grand Bazaar
00:16Interchange and the one at the Eddie Hart Grounds in Tacarigua, are about 98% complete.
00:22Knock that. That's for you to do. Take a knock.
00:30You laugh, right? You understand what I'm saying? So, we didn't just take things here and dump it here and
00:36say, your office has come. So let's come. No.
00:39We brought the CDS, brought the Commissioner of Police and his team to ensure that, listen, if all is well,
00:47we move forward and we move forward quickly.
00:50You see? The opening date will depend on the Prime Minister, Ms. Kamala Prasad-Bissessa. So, we wait.
00:58As soon as I give her the OK that all is well and she says, thumbs up, we move.
01:04During the tour of the post in Teruba, the minister was asked if any of what the government maintains are
01:10to be 30 mobile police-military posts will be permanent.
01:14Well, some of them will be permanent. That's why they call a mobile unit.
01:19Some of them will be permanent and some of them, obviously, will move from point A to point B, depending
01:25on what is happening and the level of enforcement required to bring something under control, if need be.
01:34Minister Alexander showed us some of the amenities for the police and military who will occupy the units, as well
01:40as for members of the public.
01:41They are trying to put a patrol car at every unit so that we can have that type of response,
01:46that type of intervention, interception.
01:50It's about thinking, not outside the box, because we are not living inside any box. We are thinking advanced policing.
02:00And as again, some persons will have issues with it, but they apparently don't understand, they don't read, they don't
02:05look at the nations that are successful in some of the operations because of what they have implemented.
02:11In acknowledging the criticisms, he referenced politics as an update was sought regarding the contractor for the project.
02:19There's nothing to hide here, you know. There was nothing below the belt. There's nothing to hide here.
02:24There was a procedure done and the procedure, there was someone who was successful and we go forward from there.
02:30What we were looking for, there are other persons who could have provided the mobile units,
02:35but what we were looking for was the safety of the officers on the inside.
02:42Homeland Security Minister Alexander told TV6 News on Tuesday that the information regarding exactly which contractor got the job
02:49will be made available to the public at the appropriate time.
02:54Jewel Brown, TV6 News.
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