While he main­tains that the well-be­ing of po­lice of­fi­cers is crit­i­cal for their or­gan­i­sa­tion’s crime-fight­ing suc­cess, Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der is urg­ing of­fi­cers not to abuse their sick leaves and to re­port to du­ty as ex­pect­ed.

Alexan­der, in an in­ter­view with Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day, made the call as he re­ferred to ef­forts to ab­sorb Spe­cial Re­serve Po­lice of­fi­cers (SRPs) in­to the wider TTPS.

He not­ed that as con­sul­ta­tions on the ab­sorp­tion ex­er­cise con­tin­ue with act­ing Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Ju­nior Ben­jamin and of­fi­cials from the TTPS So­cial Wel­fare As­so­ci­a­tion (TTPSS­WA), it was im­por­tant that all of­fi­cers recog­nise the se­ri­ous­ness of their re­spon­si­bil­i­ties.