Acting Police Commissioner Errol Alexander
Acting Police Commissioner Errol Alexander has said rumours that National Security Minister Phillip La Corbinier received a death threat have turned out to be “untrue”.
In an article published in the STAR, Alexander also made it clear that the minister did not request additional security – it was given by the police force as standard procedure when such information is received for investigation. Click to view full STAR story.
“What I can say is that yes we had some information about such a threat, which the best of our information has proven to be untrue,” he told the STAR.
“In any event, whenever we receive information of any such threat we would immediately beef up security for the individual in question. So it was never a case where the minister himself made any such request,” Alexander clarified.
The top cop also told the STAR he has no information that the threat rumour was connected with the missing guns case involving the Anse La Raye Police Station.
In response to an article in another news medium, several senior police officers contacted St. Lucia News Online (SNO) to rubbish insinuations that police officers were suspected of carrying out the threat.
“Opportunistic lies,” said one of the sources. “It appears a group of persons are out to tear a part the police force, some being perpetrated by officers. Minister La Cobs and investigators knows that there is no evidence that police officers made the threat. In fact, no one knows who made the threats.”