(Trinidad Express) More than 31,000 people have applied for 5,000 positions of special reserve police (SRPs).
As a result, National Security Minister Jack Warner yesterday said he was going to approach Cabinet again this Thursday with a note to hire 5,000 more people as SRPs.
This will bring the number of SRPs to be hired to 10,000 as Cabinet had last week approved Warner’s request for an initial 5,000.
Warner will also be asking Cabinet to approve the purchase of 100 motor cycles for the Police Service.
Cabinet last week approved TT$289.6 million for the continued fight against crime which included the recruitment of SRPs as well as the purchase of 300 vehicles for the Police Service and upgrade and installation of modern Information Technology (IT) equipment to improve the response systems of the police.
Warner told the Express by phone yesterday that there were preliminary reports of some 31,000 people applying for SRP jobs.
These figures excluded the thousands who turned up at the recruitment drive at North Eastern College, Sangre Grande yesterday and the drive carded to take place at the Scarborough Secondary school this Friday.
