Akash Sama­roo

Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) deputy leader San­jiv Bood­hu has rub­bished Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der’s in­sis­tence that there is no po­lit­i­cal in­ter­fer­ence in the is­suance of Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs), ac­cus­ing him of mis­un­der­stand­ing the very reg­u­la­tions that gov­ern the cur­rent State of Emer­gency (SoE).

Bood­hu’s crit­i­cism came a day af­ter Alexan­der re­ject­ed claims that politi­cians in­flu­ence the de­ten­tion process, main­tain­ing that PDOs orig­i­nate with the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) and are not po­lit­i­cal­ly di­rect­ed.