Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment has called for an im­me­di­ate and in­de­pen­dent in­ves­ti­ga­tion af­ter re­ports sur­faced that Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der met with in­car­cer­at­ed gang lead­ers be­fore and af­ter the last gen­er­al elec­tions.

In a me­dia re­lease on Sep­tem­ber 21, the PNM not­ed that re­ports of such meet­ings were brought to the at­ten­tion of both the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) and the Pris­ons Au­thor­i­ty. The par­ty de­scribed the al­le­ga­tions as strik­ing “at the very heart of our na­tion’s democ­ra­cy and the in­tegri­ty of our na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty sys­tems.”

The PNM is de­mand­ing: