With­out di­vulging fur­ther de­tails, Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der says that ad­di­tion­al re­sources were ex­pect­ed to tack­le crime in T&T, as he says that sev­er­al se­cu­ri­ty agen­cies con­tin­ue to op­er­ate with in­suf­fi­cient staffing and equip­ment to ful­fil their du­ties.

Re­spond­ing to ques­tions about the ex­ten­sion of the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency (SoE) dur­ing the launch of a hair­styling course at his con­stituen­cy of­fice on El Do­ra­do Road on Sat­ur­day, Alexan­der said there was a need to ad­dress cer­tain de­fi­cien­cies in the State's an­ti-crime re­sponse.

He lament­ed that many chal­lenges were dif­fi­cult to over­come in or­der for the Gov­ern­ment to achieve its crime-fight­ing vi­sion.