PRIME Minister Stuart Young has announced more of the PNM’s new plans to tackle crime, including the expansion of police undercover operations, the implementation of a new “elite” police squad, higher penalties for law-enforcement infringements and a simpler method by which a police commissioner will be selected.

He said covert and undercover operations needed to be expanded but lack of legislative protection for undercover officers hindered its success.

“There is no law in Trinidad and Tobago that allows undercover and covert officers to do their work without fear of prosecution. That coming too, to allow them to do their job...