Earlier this week at the UWI forum on Privacy and Law Enforcement, I presented the Attorney General with a scenario regarding the SSA and its contravention which resulted from the massive indictment on the Police Service that came from the Prime Minister. It apparently resonated with Mr Al-Rawi, who constantly repeated the suggestion throughout the remainder of the session, as I suppose he had not arrived at this realization prior to my indication.
As I removed the political element from the SSA argument and focused instead on those in the protective services who are instructed to gather the information, it was apparent that if the revelations of the Prime Minister and Express journalist were accurate, then a large sub-section of those persons have been compromised by having received public housing. How then can the SSA be trusted with surveillance and information gathering if the persons tasked with such duties have been discredited by the very administration that is giving them more power?
Ravi Maharaj