The Government has begun to implement the crime proposals of retired Major- General of the Canadian Armed Forces, Cameron Ross, Prime Minister Patrick Manning has said.

Speaking on Monday night at the seventh meeting of the PNM’s public education series held at ’the College’ of the Wendy Fitzwilliam Boulevard, Diamond Vale. Manning also said Government was as concerned about crime as the citizens of this country. ’If the solutions were easy, we would have solved the problem a long time ago,’ he said, adding that it was not too late. ’What we can commit ourselves to is this: If we try A and A does not work, we will try B. And if B doesn’t work, we would try C. We will try, and we will try, and we will try until we solve that (crime) problem in the interest of the people of Trinidad and Tobago’.

He said the Government has taken possession of an ’excellent report’ from Ross, which was considered and approved by the National Security Council and the Cabinet respectively. Without elaborating on the proposals, Manning said Government had begun to implement them.

He said a statement would be made by the National Security Minister very shortly in the Parliament. He said the Ross recommendations have brought a ’new structure in the conduct of the country’s security business, a structure that attempts to bring a greater measure of efficiency to the conduct of the country’s crime and security affairs and an approach that stands a much better chance of success’.