De­spite the mes­sage telegraphed to Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der by Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) push­back on a po­lice post con­struc­tion in his Tu­na­puna con­stituen­cy, Alexan­der bat­tled on Thurs­day night, hands-on, along­side work on the Grand Bazaar In­ter­change po­lice post.

And work’s al­so on­go­ing at the Tarou­ba Fly­over, among the first of the 30 units tar­get­ed for a De­cem­ber “Christ­mas gift” com­ple­tion. Named lo­ca­tions in­clude 10 South/Cen­tral ar­eas, with more to be iden­ti­fied.

How­ev­er, a del­uge of 2,000 re­quests from peo­ple and en­ti­ties for 246 posts—con­firmed by au­thor­i­ties—has in­di­cat­ed a high pub­lic re­sponse to Gov­ern­ment’s ini­tia­tive, which pre­sent­ed tan­gi­bles to cope with crime chal­lenge. Re­quests in­clude from Bel­mont, Mor­vant—and To­ba­go, which wants four posts. PNM push­back is, how­ev­er, hold­ing Gov­ern­ment firm­ly to ac­count, lest it breaks the law the posts are ex­pect­ed to up­hold.