Me­dia Am­bas­sador for the Po­lice Ser­vice, ASP Owie Rus­sell, says the TTPS wel­comes the ap­point­ment of Roger Alexan­der as the Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty.

Alexan­der, who is now the Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Tu­na­puna, was sworn in last Sat­ur­day.

The Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty has been split in­to two di­vi­sions by un­der new ad­min­is­tra­tion led by Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad Bisses­sar.

Dur­ing an in­ter­view on to­day’s edi­tion of CNC3’s The Morn­ing Brew show, ASP Rus­sell said of­fi­cers are look­ing for­ward to work­ing with Min­is­ter Alexan­der.

“He knows the hard­ships of the po­lice of­fi­cers. He un­der­stands our re­source is­sue. And most im­por­tant­ly, he un­der­stands our re­mu­ner­a­tion is­sue,” the TTPS Me­dia Am­bas­sador said.

“We see him as a bit of fresh air, and a [source of] hope go­ing for­ward, [even as] a big broth­er some­what, cham­pi­oning the cause of the of­fi­cers,” he added.

ASP Rus­sell al­so be­lieves that Min­is­ter Alexan­der’s ex­pe­ri­ence as a se­nior po­lice of­fi­cer will au­gur well for na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty.

“We see him as some­body suit­able based on the re­cen­cy of his as­so­ci­a­tion with the or­gan­i­sa­tion. Up to six weeks ago, he was a po­lice of­fi­cer at the rank of Se­nior Su­per­in­ten­dent. So, we stand by to see his ideas, and to ex­e­cute the man­date,” he said.

Roger Alexan­der MP will share the re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty mat­ters with Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for To­co-San­gre Grande, Wayne Surge, who has been sworn in as Min­is­ter of De­fense.