Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der has re­spond­ed to a re­cent re­port from the UK Visas and Im­mi­gra­tion de­part­ment de­tail­ing the num­ber of gangs in T&T, not­ing that there was some in­con­sis­ten­cy be­tween the in­for­ma­tion con­tained in the re­port and in­tel­li­gence lo­cal­ly.

Re­spond­ing to ques­tions from Guardian Me­dia af­ter the 16th Meet­ing of the Coun­cil of Min­is­ters of the Caribbean Dis­as­ter and Emer­gency Man­age­ment Agency (CDE­MA) at the Hilton Trinidad, St Ann’s, last Fri­day, Alexan­der said while he read the re­port, he did not have the time to crit­i­cal­ly as­sess it in any great de­tail.

How­ev­er, he con­firmed that while the re­port claimed there were 186 gangs op­er­at­ing in T&T, he had dif­fer­ent fig­ures.