PARAY: GOV'T FAILED

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Mayaro Mp Rushton Paray says the officers who investigated the Top Cop have brought embarrassment to the nation by not doing their job thoroughly before arresting Erla Christopher. We caught up with the MP before Wednesday's sitting of the Lower House.

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00:00MP for Mayaro, Rushton Parry, says the top cop debacle has proved to be an embarrassment

00:07to the nation.

00:08Institutions all over this country has been collapsing for the last 10 years, right, and

00:13those that have not been collapsing under the weight of its own incompetence, they have

00:18been ably assisted by a government that seems they are very much interested in governing

00:24by interference.

00:26This latest fiasco, the commission of police has us as the laughing stock of police services

00:33around the Caribbean.

00:34He predicts the situation will get crazier as the days go by.

00:39How can you go after a commission of police with such weak arguments?

00:44Did the DPP get involved prior to the laying of the caution and the arrest?

00:50Only to be heard that the DPP literally chased them out.

00:53After the police service commission issued an order to the top cop Erla Christopher that

00:57she ought not turn up for duty nor assume duties consistent with the office, it wrote

01:03to the president indicating a vacancy exists and therefore forwarded DCP Junior Benjamin

01:09as the most senior to take up the acting post.

01:12It must be debated in the lower house.

01:15It's going to cost the state quite a bit of money to have all 41 of us here today on such

01:21a weak issue that has not been sorted out.

01:25He is referencing the legal action mounted by Erla's attorney, senior counsel Pamela

01:30Elder, which was at the same time that parliament sat being heard before a high court judge.

01:36The top cop's replacement was being sought before the seven days granted to her to respond

01:42expired.

01:43Is the commissioner being chased out of office?

01:4612-20-25 something surreptitious has happened and they are likening it to a coup.

01:53Because how could you go after one of the leading, the highest office holders, in the

02:01middle of a state of emergency as well, and you come shooting from the hip?

02:05No, that is nonsense.

02:08When you come, come fully loaded.

02:11And when you make an arrest on a caution, go to court Monday morning.

02:15Something he says is being done in sequence.

02:18After you've embarrassed the country, the office of the police commissioner, now you're

02:23going to ask the head of the security council if he knew about this rifle and whether they

02:28approved it?

02:29It is really a case of the tail wagging the dog.

02:32The MP holds the prime minister responsible, saying the buck stops with him.

02:37Urvashi Tamori, Rupnarayan, TV6 News.

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