Hours be­fore ac­tivists and demon­stra­tors tried to stage a protest in sup­port of po­lice shoot­ing vic­tim Ka­ia Sealy out­side the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre, St James, yes­ter­day, Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der called on po­lice to pre­serve their in­tegri­ty, as he ac­knowl­edged that the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice was fac­ing sev­er­al chal­lenges in terms of their im­age.

Alexan­der made the re­marks dur­ing his ad­dress at the launch of the TTPS’ Diplo­mat­ic Se­cu­ri­ty Unit, which is aimed at pro­vid­ing se­cu­ri­ty to diplo­mats, high com­mis­sions and em­bassies.

Alexan­der said he ex­pect­ed that of­fi­cers in the unit would dis­play the best qual­i­ty of polic­ing T&T had to of­fer, as he said the safe­ty of cit­i­zens and vis­i­tors alike was a ma­jor pri­or­i­ty of Gov­ern­ment.