By Prior Beharry
IT’S “strange and worrisome” that an investigation into the issuing of firearm user’s licences in Trinidad and Tobago will focus only during the period when Gary Griffith was police commissioner.
This according to the political leader of the Progressive Empowerment Party (PEP) Phillip Edward Alexander in an interview with AZPNews.com on Tuesday.
He said, “If the investigation was to get to the bottom of corruption in the police service, then the scope of the investigation would have to be open-ended and not limited to the term of the last commissioner of police.”
Alexander added, “This makes the investigation very strange and worrisome and suggested that it was done with a predetermined outcome in mind.”
Griffith has already signalled his intention to take legal action due to claims in the report by retired Justice Stanley John and retired Senior Supt Arthur Barrington.
The report commissioned by the Police Service Commission gives details of rampant corruption the Firearms Permit Section of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service in interviews with several police officers.
