00:00Attorney-at-law Nairi Alphonso is flabbergasted at what she describes as horrifying and disturbing.
00:08She says the treatment meted out to Commissioner Erla Harewood-Christopher is grossly unfair.
00:14This is a mass murderer that you need to take that person off from the general population to protect other citizens.
00:21So you're saying that you took a sitting commissioner out of their office, posing no threat except probably to attorneys like myself.
00:30And you had a half-baked investigation. You had an investigation that you didn't have proper guidance, didn't understand the law.
00:40I mean, this is horrifying. It's frightening. It's frightening for normal citizens because you start to say,
00:46well, if that's happening at such a senior civil servant level, well, what are you going to take for the normal persons out there in the streets?
00:54Several senior officials have been reported as saying for an arms dealer to be allowed to bring in these rifles is the first breach and is illegal and should have been restricted.
01:06However, Alphonso, who is also the director of Firearms Dealership, Firearms Training Institute, tells the TV6 Morning Edition,
01:15the weapons in question are not prohibited in any way under the Firearms Act.
01:20She further stresses that the commissioner, quote, is the sole authority for the grant of firearms and ammunition and various accessories under the Firearms Act.
01:31Whether you happen to be the defense force, whether you happen to be prisons, whether you happen to be the municipal police now or the SSA, end quote.
01:42Alphonso also states that nothing is wrong with bringing in these items for resale as implied when a dealer brings in any ammunition.
01:51OK, so if I have an order from the police service for one million rounds of ammunition, I have to go off with my order to my supplier, my manufacturer and say,
02:01listen, I need a million rounds of ammunition, nine millimeter ammunition for the police service.
02:06Could you supply it, please? I would have to show evidence of that order.
02:11And the firearm permit itself will tell me, OK, how much ammunition, how many guns, how much this as a case may be.
02:18But when I bring it in, well, I'm not bringing it in for love.
02:22I'm bringing it in for resale to the particular agency that has ordered it.
02:27She also responds to the correspondence sent to Dr. Keith Rowley as chair of the National Security Council by Deputy Commissioner of Police Suzette Martin.
02:37You're asking certain questions which appeared in yesterday's newspapers of the the chairman of the National Security Council, the prime minister.
02:47About did you approve? Well, we're in the legislation or anywhere else in the law.
02:53Does it give the power to the prime minister, the minister of national security or any other minister?
02:59I can't think of to grant any kind of permission or approval to bring in any kind of weapons.
03:06So that's a nonstarter. The attorney tells TV6 the entire situation is unsettling, to say the least.
03:14I mean, I'll use the word that came to mind at the top of my.
03:17There's some sort of is this some sort of with chances, some sort of palace coup to move somebody to put somebody either internally in the police service or the coup from internally or externally.
03:27Who knows? Or a combination thereof. Is it that? I don't know.
03:31Because I said the underlying issue makes no sense whatsoever.
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