The web­site of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice went of­fline ear­li­er this year due to un­paid bills to its ex­ter­nal ser­vice provider, Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der said in the Sen­ate on Wednes­day.

He said the dis­rup­tion be­gan in Feb­ru­ary and ex­tend­ed in­to ear­ly March 2026 af­ter in­voic­es for host­ing and main­te­nance — in­clud­ing one from 2025 and an­oth­er for 2026 — re­mained out­stand­ing.

The out­age raised con­cern among mem­bers of the pub­lic, as the web­site serves as the pri­ma­ry open source for na­tion­al crime sta­tis­tics, with some ques­tion­ing the ab­sence of da­ta dur­ing the down­time.

Alexan­der said the is­sue has since been ad­dressed and the web­site is now back on­line, but warned some fea­tures may still be tem­porar­i­ly un­avail­able as main­te­nance and up­grades con­tin­ue to im­prove the plat­form’s func­tion­al­i­ty and re­silience.

Dur­ing a sup­ple­men­tal ques­tion, Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor Amery Browne asked:

“What is be­ing done to pre­vent re­cur­rence of the non-pay­ment is­sue re­ferred to by the Min­is­ter?”

Alexan­der re­spond­ed:

“Mr. Pres­i­dent, the Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice, as you are aware, is the Ac­count­ing Of­fi­cer, so I will have to get ad­vice from him if I was to an­swer that ques­tion any fur­ther.”