ROWLEY ON ERLA

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Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has strongly defended Police Commissioner Erla Harewood Christopher as  calls for her to be fired continue. Dr ROWLEY made this clear when questioned on Friday in Tobago, at the Prime Minister's media conference. More in this Elizabeth Williams report.

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00:00I, as Prime Minister of this country, might be the only person in this country who does

00:07not have the option to not support the Commission of Police, doesn't matter who he or she is,

00:13doesn't matter what other issues might be going down.

00:17I am required to support the Commission of Police, who is in office.

00:22Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley sought to defend further the Police Commissioner.

00:27Because you see me trying to fire the Commission of Police, how many pages you want in the

00:31Guardian to print how interfering the Prime Minister is?

00:35Tell me.

00:36The same person who is chaining you up there to say, fire the Commission of Police and

00:41the Prime Minister should do that, that same page, that same person is saying, don't talk

00:45to the Commission of Police because you're interfering and we have, what, separation

00:50of powers and all kind of nonsense.

00:52Dr Rowley said all laws are different to other countries.

00:56And they compare here with El Salvador, where the President in El Salvador decided to lock

01:04up everybody with a tattoo, or anybody who said they know somebody with a tattoo.

01:10We can't do that in Trinidad and Tobago.

01:14What we have agreed to be governed by is a suite of laws that doesn't allow that.

01:18Elizabeth Williams, TV6 News.

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