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Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der has dou­bled down on his po­si­tion that de­tails of the State’s an­ti-crime strate­gies will not be made pub­lic.

His de­c­la­ra­tion to Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day, came near­ly a month af­ter first an­nounc­ing that Gov­ern­ment will no longer re­veal its crime-fight­ing plans. Alexan­der re­it­er­at­ed that trans­paren­cy in this re­gard could in­ad­ver­tent­ly give crim­i­nal syn­di­cates the up­per hand.

“I am not pre­pared to give to per­sons in­for­ma­tion about na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty or in­tel­li­gence that could ben­e­fit the crim­i­nal syn­di­cate or the or­gan­ised crime teams in and out of Trinidad and To­ba­go. I am not pre­pared to do that,” Alexan­der said when quizzed on what plans Gov­ern­ment had to deal with the on­go­ing crime scourge.