The Prime Minister says there are "good, decent, honest, people" in the State security services doing "an honest day's work, standing between us and the criminal element".
But the Prime Minister also says until "the criminal element is rooted out from the State's security services, this country will always be in danger.
This as Dr Keith Rowley defended his administration's role in the war on crime during a PNM public meeting at the Tropical Angel Harps panyard in Enterprise, on Thursday night.
Juhel Browne reports.