Beckles to probe $6M works to CoP’s official home

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has vowed to car­ry out her own in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the lev­el of de­te­ri­o­ra­tion that has ren­dered the of­fi­cial res­i­dence of the Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (CoP) at the Po­lice Acad­e­my in St James un­in­hab­it­able.

In­di­cat­ing this as she was ques­tioned by re­porters dur­ing a wa­ter protest at Mal­abar South yes­ter­day, she raised a few con­cerns about what had been re­vealed in Par­lia­ment ear­li­er in the week.

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Re­fer­ring to claims by Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der that the more than 200-year-old res­i­dence was mouldy and that ex­ter­nal up­grades to the pool and roof as well as the elec­tri­cal and plumb­ing, were re­quired, she said, “What we’d want to know is what is the ex­ist­ing val­ue of the prop­er­ty.”