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The Es­tate Po­lice As­so­ci­a­tion (EPA) is prepar­ing to ap­proach the Oc­cu­pa­tion­al Safe­ty and Health (OSH) Au­thor­i­ty in the com­ing weeks over what it de­scribes as se­ri­ous health and safe­ty breach­es at di­lap­i­dat­ed se­cu­ri­ty booths at schools across Trinidad, which it says place Na­tion­al Main­te­nance Train­ing and Se­cu­ri­ty Com­pa­ny (NMTS) of­fi­cers at risk.

The NMTS pro­vides se­cu­ri­ty, jan­i­to­r­i­al and main­te­nance ser­vices to gov­ern­ment in­sti­tu­tions, schools and the ju­di­cia­ry. In a video shared with Guardian Me­dia, EPA mem­bers com­piled im­ages of se­cu­ri­ty booths show­ing miss­ing boards, bro­ken win­dows and doors, ex­posed elec­tri­cal out­lets, un­kempt wash­rooms, leak­ing roofs and pipelines, rot­ted floor­ing, worn fur­ni­ture, mud­dy foot­paths, and com­plained of rat and mos­qui­to in­fes­ta­tions.

Con­tact­ed yes­ter­day, the chair­man of the EPA’s NMTS branch, Za­hir Khan, said he was aware of sev­er­al of­fi­cers who had fall­en be­cause of un­safe con­di­tions and were cur­rent­ly on in­jury leave.