Con­struc­tion of three new army-po­lice posts in To­ba­go is sched­uled to be­gin this week­end, the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) has an­nounced.

The posts will be es­tab­lished at Ply­mouth, Sig­nal Hill and Good­wood as part of a na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty ini­tia­tive to es­tab­lish 30 army-po­lice posts across Trinidad and To­ba­go over the next four months.

The THA said the project is be­ing un­der­tak­en in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Min­istry of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty and forms part of the Gov­ern­ment's ef­forts to strength­en se­cu­ri­ty na­tion­wide.

Ac­cord­ing to the THA, the three To­ba­go in­stal­la­tions will sup­port ex­ist­ing po­lice sta­tions, in­crease pa­trol cov­er­age and po­si­tion po­lice and mil­i­tary per­son­nel clos­er to the com­mu­ni­ties they serve.

The an­nounce­ment comes af­ter Ply­mouth had been rec­om­mend­ed ear­li­er this month as a pos­si­ble lo­ca­tion for one of the na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty posts.

Se­nior Su­per­in­ten­dent Rod­hill Kirk had said po­lice da­ta in­di­cat­ed that Ply­mouth was the To­ba­go com­mu­ni­ty most in need of an ad­di­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty pres­ence. He had al­so stressed that con­sul­ta­tion with res­i­dents and oth­er stake­hold­ers would be nec­es­sary be­fore the pro­pos­al pro­ceed­ed.

The As­sem­bly said it re­mains com­mit­ted to work­ing with na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty part­ners to en­hance pub­lic safe­ty and help en­sure com­mu­ni­ties across To­ba­go feel safe and se­cure.

The roll­out of the 30 posts has been dogged by ques­tions over whether they are per­ma­nent or mo­bile struc­tures, where they are be­ing built and, so far, how much the tax­pay­er will pay.

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der is still re­fus­ing to dis­close the pro­ject­ed cost or con­trac­tors, say­ing the de­tails will be re­leased lat­er.