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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