Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der is urg­ing the lat­est batch of in­com­ing po­lice of­fi­cers to put down their cell­phones and make the harsh de­ci­sions where and when need­ed, not in the in­ter­est of get­ting likes on so­cial me­dia but be­cause it is the right thing to do.

De­liv­er­ing this mes­sage as he ad­dressed Batch­es Three and Four of 2024 dur­ing a Pass­ing Out Pa­rade at the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) Acad­e­my in St James on Mon­day, he re­mind­ed them of the au­gust ranks they had now joined.

He im­plored the 256 grad­u­ates to stand out, “Not on­ly for law and or­der but al­so for the badge and the oath of of­fice you took to pro­tect.”