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The 100 mem­bers of the T&T Vol­un­teer De­fence Force who were called out last De­cem­ber to as­sist law en­force­ment for three months dur­ing the Christ­mas and Car­ni­val sea­sons, will re­main on the job un­til June af­ter their tenure in the role was ex­tend­ed.

This was the word from Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Mar­vin Gon­za­les yes­ter­day fol­low­ing a pass­ing out pa­rade at the Po­lice Acad­e­my, St James. He said the de­ci­sion was ap­proved dur­ing Thurs­day’s Cab­i­net meet­ing.

Not­ing that Gov­ern­ment is seek­ing sus­tain the gains made dur­ing the State of Emer­gency (SoE) af­ter it ex­pires on April 13, he said, “Cab­i­net ap­proved a fur­ther ex­ten­sion for three months with a bud­get of over $3 mil­lion so that law en­force­ment can con­tin­ue its ef­forts af­ter the State of Emer­gency.”