Minister of Homeland Security Roger Alexander is defending the recent decision to award a police officer for issuing the most traffic tickets.
Speaking at the Chaguanas Chamber’s Breakfast Meeting on Thursday morning, the Minister said there have been several remarks and commentaries about what he called a “small issue.”
The officer was awarded at a recent ceremony held at the Police Administrative Building in Port of Spain.
Here’s what Minister Alexander said at the event: “If a police officer is treated with a situation every day, that’s his own responsibility. One must not try to take away the responsibility or the duty of the officer. If that is his responsibility, all you have to do is to do the right thing. So if that is done, if I’m having an officer doing their job, and you’re coming down the road and you are ticketed, and sometime during the day, somebody, one of us, may have been robbed, home invasion, and the officer could have stopped that car earlier, and I gave him a ticket, recording the driving public information. Is that not an opportunity to present some sort of evidence that can assist the police later on with respect to that offence?”