Two weeks af­ter he an­nounced the Gov­ern­ment’s in­ten­tion to boost the TTPS’ man­pow­er strength to 10,200 of­fi­cers over a phased five-year re­cruit­ment plan, Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der now says an ad­di­tion­al 800 prison of­fi­cers will be join­ing the ranks of the Prison Ser­vice in the near fu­ture.

Alexan­der made the re­marks dur­ing his fea­ture ad­dress at the Prison Ser­vice’s 84th An­nu­al Sports and Fam­i­ly Day at the Prison Sports and Recre­ation Grounds, Arou­ca, yes­ter­day, where he re­flect­ed on the var­i­ous con­cerns and is­sues raised by act­ing Prison Com­mis­sion­er Car­los Cor­raspe some­time ago.

Alexan­der ad­dressed Cor­raspe di­rect­ly, not­ing that he did not for­get the con­cerns raised, not­ing that he un­der­stood the se­ri­ous­ness of man­pow­er short­ages, giv­en his own past ex­pe­ri­ence as a po­lice of­fi­cer.