Thir­teen more de­ten­tion or­ders have been is­sued un­der reg­u­la­tion 14 of the Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tions, 2026, in­clud­ing one for a de­tainee who as­sist­ed a cor­rupt mem­ber of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice in in­ter­fer­ing with ev­i­dence linked to a transna­tion­al or­gan­ised crime group.

The or­ders were is­sued by Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der be­tween March 18 and April 13, 2026, au­tho­ris­ing the pre­ven­tive de­ten­tion of in­di­vid­u­als on grounds of pub­lic safe­ty con­cerns.

Among the cas­es, Bevon “B-Man” Leza­ma was al­leged to have as­sist­ed a cor­rupt mem­ber of the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice in in­ter­fer­ing with ex­hibits of ev­i­den­tial val­ue linked to a transna­tion­al or­gan­ised crime group from a se­cure po­lice in­stal­la­tion.