The State of Emergency ends on Monday and those held under emergency orders would have to be released if the authorities cannot charge them.
Ramlogan told reporters there is much work to be done before the emergency ends and declined speculation on what might happen if charges are not laid against detainees by then.
“We’ll cross that bridge when we come to it," Ramlogan said. “The police have to do their work (and) the challenge now is for us to gather the various parts of the jigsaw puzzle and see whether or not you can put together a case that will satisfy the legal requirements for the DPP to proffer charges.”
Ramlogan said that was a matter “entirely for the security agencies and they are working ‘round-the-clock and trying their very best.”
He said he is doing “all that is necessary and required to ensure the interest of justice will be served.”
Ramlogan also dismissed suggestions from opposition Senator Fitzgerald Hinds that government's moves are creating religious friction between Hindus and Muslims.
Hinds told the Senate Muslims are “concerned about the bad impression and the tarnished image the Prime Minister has put on the Muslim community.” Hinds said, based on the arguments on several radio talk shows, “people are beginning to divide themselves along Muslim/Hindu lines in T&T.”
Ramlogan said any move “to inject passions of race and religion in the affairs of national security will be reckless and dangerous.”
He said the law enforcement agencies were operating on the basis of intelligence presented to them and are not driven by anything to do with race or religion.
Ramlogan said T&T has had a rich and proud history of managing “diversity and any extremist and fundamentalist sects within our country.”
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