Alexander vows closer scrutiny of TTPS spending after $93M phone bill

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der says “some­thing was go­ing wrong” for the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) to ac­cu­mu­late more than $93 mil­lion in tele­phone bills over four fi­nan­cial years. He said his min­istry was tak­ing a more hands-on ap­proach to spend­ing and ac­count­abil­i­ty.

Alexan­der ac­knowl­edged that the bill was among the fi­nan­cial oblig­a­tions in­her­it­ed by the cur­rent ad­min­is­tra­tion. He said the Gov­ern­ment must now ex­am­ine how such a sub­stan­tial amount was al­lowed to ac­cu­mu­late.

Full coverageRoger Alexander Demands Answers as TTPS Phone Bills Exceed $93 Million4 reports

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He was re­spond­ing to ques­tions from Guardian Me­dia on Sun­day af­ter the Na­tion­al Day of Re­mem­brance wreath-lay­ing cer­e­mo­ny at Memo­r­i­al Park in Port-of-Spain.