Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has re­vealed that she has a pan­ic but­ton in­stalled in her pri­vate home, and is en­cour­ag­ing oth­er home­own­ers to con­sid­er do­ing the same.

Speak­ing dur­ing a pub­lic con­sul­ta­tion on the stand your ground leg­is­la­tion at her con­stituen­cy of­fice in Pe­nal last night, Per­sad-Bisses­sar, the MP for Siparia, de­scribed the de­vice as an in­ex­pen­sive but ef­fec­tive tool for per­son­al safe­ty.

“If you don’t have CCTV cam­eras, you don’t have any­thing, any­time you are wor­ried, you just press that but­ton and the whole place is noise, like a siren blar­ing,” she said. “We did that at our home ... so I am say­ing it is not so ex­pen­sive to do. So maybe you can con­sid­er that un­til we get the crim­i­nals safe­ly locked away and be­hind bars.”