Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der says he in­tends to meet with of­fi­cials in and out of the re­gion to dis­cuss mat­ters of safe­ty and se­cu­ri­ty, as he stressed the need for a firm re­sponse to crim­i­nal­i­ty.

Alexan­der, who has been in of­fice for one week as of yes­ter­day, told Guardian Me­dia that he in­tends to con­sid­er all op­tions nec­es­sary in deal­ing with mat­ters of crime and crim­i­nal­i­ty.

Re­fer­ring to ef­forts un­der­way by the gov­ern­ment of El Sal­vador in crack­ing down on gangs and oth­er or­gan­ised crime units, Alexan­der com­ment­ed on the sta­tis­ti­cal suc­cess ob­served in that coun­try's mur­der rate.