Minister of National Security, Stuart Young is currently leading a security delegation on a five-day visit to the United Kingdom.
On Thursday, Minister Young and his team met with Lord Tariq Mahmood Ahmad of Wimbledon, Minister of State for the Commonwealth and the United Nations, and engaged in the first Ministerial Committee Meeting between Trinidad and Tobago and the United Kingdom, a statement by the ministry said.
This committee was formed as part of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) which was signed between both countries in November 2017, to further strengthen bilateral security cooperation.
The ministry said that the team held productive discussions on advancing the T&T-UK security partnership in areas of cybercrime, Police Service Reform and intelligence sharing.
Minister Young was accompanied by the Chief of Defence Staff, Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force, Rear Admiral Hayden Pritchard and Commissioner of Police, Trinidad and Tobago Police Service, Gary Griffith.
The statement said that the Ministry of National Security looks forward to continued T&T-UK collaboration on security matters of mutual interest.