Shane Su­perville

Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der met on Tues­day with rep­re­sen­ta­tives from US-based se­cu­ri­ty firm Guide­post So­lu­tions to ex­plore op­por­tu­ni­ties for strength­en­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go’s pro­tec­tive ser­vices.

Speak­ing with Guardian Me­dia af­ter the meet­ing at his Tem­ple Court of­fice in Port of Spain, Alexan­der said the fo­cus was on im­prov­ing co­or­di­na­tion across the coun­try’s law en­force­ment arms and up­grad­ing the state’s dig­i­tal se­cu­ri­ty re­sponse.

“These gen­tle­men of­fer a whole list of tech­ni­cal as­sis­tance to the TT Po­lice Ser­vice, our Im­mi­gra­tion Ser­vice, the Prison Ser­vice and our Fire Ser­vice,” he said. “They’ve out­lined a list of ac­tiv­i­ties we can in­cor­po­rate to in­ter­con­nect our ser­vices be­cause we are look­ing to go dig­i­tal.”

The meet­ing in­clud­ed Guide­post So­lu­tions pres­i­dent Louis Mil­ione, a for­mer deputy ad­min­is­tra­tor of the US Drug En­force­ment Ad­min­is­tra­tion (DEA), who said the com­pa­ny aims to help T&T break down si­los with­in its agen­cies and map threat net­works more ef­fec­tive­ly.

Mil­ione said the dis­cus­sion al­so cov­ered ways to sup­port lo­cal au­thor­i­ties in coun­ter­ing drug and arms traf­fick­ing. “That’s cer­tain­ly some­thing we dis­cussed with the Min­is­ter—how you iden­ti­fy the net­works and at­tack the net­works, work­ing with all the au­thor­i­ties in T&T and all coun­ter­parts here in T&T,” he said.