Se­nior Su­per­in­ten­dent Roger Alexan­der, who was last as­signed to the An­ti-Ex­tor­tion Unit, has re­signed from the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice and has been tipped as the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress’ prospec­tive can­di­date for Tu­na­puna.

So­cial me­dia was abuzz yes­ter­day af­ter­noon, af­ter a post be­gan cir­cu­lat­ing that Alexan­der had re­signed with im­me­di­ate ef­fect, in or­der to con­test the Tu­na­puna con­stituen­cy for the UNC.

Short­ly af­ter the news broke, a se­nior po­lice of­fi­cer con­firmed Alexan­der had re­signed with the of­fi­cer on­ly say­ing “Af­fir­ma­tive” when asked if there was any truth to his res­ig­na­tion.