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Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der has called for a re­port in­to the mul­ti-mil­lion-dol­lar con­tract for body cam­eras and sup­port­ing in­fra­struc­ture is­sued un­der for­mer po­lice com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith.

Speak­ing dur­ing a post-Car­ni­val me­dia brief­ing yes­ter­day, Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro said the con­tract cost the coun­try about $100 mil­lion but did not give the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice full con­trol of the cam­eras. He said un­der Grif­fith, some 1,000 cam­eras were ac­quired through the im­prop­er ex­e­cu­tion of a con­tract. He said Grif­fith, as the ac­count­ing of­fi­cer of the po­lice ser­vice, did not ex­e­cute the con­tract.

“The body cam­eras were pur­chased for $3.4 mil­lion dol­lars and there was a Blue­tooth fea­ture added for $600,000. That’s a subto­tal of $4 mil­lion. We have a li­cens­ing and main­te­nance for the said cam­eras for the pe­ri­od 2021 to 2025 cost $22 mil­lion. So, the av­er­age cost of each one of those body cam­eras end­ed up be­ing $34,000 per unit,” he said.