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A con­tin­u­a­tion of the po­lice body cam de­bate arose in the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives, on Fri­day, with Op­po­si­tion MP Mar­vin Gon­za­les de­mand­ing a clear pol­i­cy on its use from Gov­ern­ment while Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der said he in­tends to bring de­tailed in­for­ma­tion to Par­lia­ment about what he de­scribed as pro­cure­ment in­con­sis­ten­cies un­der the for­mer ad­min­is­tra­tion.

Rais­ing the is­sue on the ad­journ­ment of the House, Gon­za­les, the Mem­ber for Arou­ca Lopinot and a for­mer na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty min­is­ter, said grow­ing pub­lic con­cern over po­lice shoot­ings and al­le­ga­tions of mis­con­duct had in­ten­si­fied calls for manda­to­ry body cam­era use with­in the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice.

He cit­ed a re­cent High Court rul­ing in which Jus­tice Frank Seep­er­sad urged cit­i­zens to con­tin­ue record­ing po­lice of­fi­cers and said “the manda­to­ry use of body cam­eras should be pri­ori­tised,” ar­gu­ing con­tem­po­ra­ne­ous record­ings pro­tect both of­fi­cers and the pub­lic.