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http://www.trinidadexpress.com/news/More-firepower--for-Parliament-Security-Unit-274978261.htmlON THE heels of the controversy over Government’s plan to acquire armoured vehicles for the Ministry of National Security comes word that more firepower has been purchased for parliamentary security.
More than three dozen guns, to beef up the Parliament Security Unit that guards MPs when they are in Parliament, arrived in the country on Thursday morning.
Well-placed airport security sources and senior police sources told CCN TV6 News last night that some 40 guns, packed in a brown wooden box, each in individual cases, arrived around 10.30 a.m. through the Amerijet compound at Piarco International Airport.
The guns, which were cleared by senior Customs officials after a call was made by a prominent businessman, were then carted off by a lone police officer in a private vehicle without a police escort, TV6 News was told.Senior police and airport security sources told TV6 that usually an escort is provided when any legal shipment of arms and ammunition arrives through the airport.
TV6 sent a text message to acting Commissioner of Police Stephen Williams to ask him if this was a permissible practice and whether this might not have posed a security risk for the lone police officer transporting the guns, but an answer from Williams was not forthcoming.
Sources told TV6 that the accompanying documents for the shipment stated, “parliamentary office”.Minister of National Security Gary Griffith, when contacted by telephone yesterday, confirmed that the guns were for the special reserve police constables attached to the Parliament Security Unit, but was non-committal on the type of guns that were brought in. Griffith also indicated that he was not sure how much the guns cost. Senior police sources told TV6 that, since the 1990 attempted coup when Parliament was stormed, there was the need to beef up security, not only outside of Parliament but inside as well.On the Parliament’s website on August 23 there was a posting for SRP constables for the Parliament Security Unit which closed off on September 2. TV6 News contacted Jason Elcock, corporate communications manager of Parliament’s Corporate Communications Department, who said he was not willing to comment on the matter.
Elcock did indicate, however, that new security personnel had recently been recruited who were in training.
People’s National Movement (PNM) public relations officer Faris Al-Rawi said the importation of these weapons for the SRPs for Parliament would be a matter for the Commissioner of Police to address.
However, Al-Rawi told TV6 that it was important “that the very best measures are followed and applied for the importation of weaponry, particularly after what transpired at the Forensic Science Centre in relation to the delivery of evidence and the consequent failure and fall-out of the observance and protocol and management procedures”.
