00:00Former Top Cop Gary Griffith is responding to Police Commissioner Lester Guevara
00:05calling for his removal from office. This after the Police Commissioner released a scathing
00:11criticism of Griffith via audio late last night, referring to him as someone seeking to remain
00:17relevant and someone who has tried numerous times to hold public office but was rejected each time
00:23by the population. By him attacking me politically, he has now politicized himself.
00:30And with that, the Police Service Commission, if it is that a commissioner really made these comments,
00:33he should be removed immediately. Griffith describes the commissioner's statements as
00:38petty and immature and says he was merely trying to help the commissioner.
00:43I will go down in history recorded as having public trust and confidence as a commissioner of police
00:48of over 70%. He needs to check his own right now. It may be less than 10%. He needs to
00:54check when I
00:54was commissioner of police, public trust and confidence in the police service was almost 60%.
00:58Now it is less than 10% under him. So rather than expect that this commissioner of police will
01:04be spending time to be criticizing people and bad-talking people, it is hope he can try to
01:09embrace change, embrace technology. Because again, I hope that this commissioner of police succeeds.
01:14But again, I cannot help him because he has proven to be so petty, he has blocked me on WhatsApp.
01:19The commissioner's comments came after Griffith accused the Top Cop of doing PR for the government.
01:26But Griffith is standing by state months.
01:29If it is seen that you are the only commissioner of police in history that boasted and stated that
01:35you recommended a state of emergency before it was proclaimed in parliament, you made a mistake.
01:39And it may be seen that you're trying to sing for your supper. If it is that you continue to
01:43speak
01:44about Zoso even before the government pushed it, you spoke about the U.S. radar finding drugs in the
01:49currently swamped, yet you cannot prove it. And then you did not have the operational training
01:53to understand how it is you can do a sting operation, which you didn't do because you
01:57said police officers, mosquitoes will bite them. According to the police commissioner,
02:02while Griffith left the TTPS in debt, his tenure in office is defined by the sharpest decline in
02:09homicides in tnts history. I have facts to back up my nine months in office 2025 ended with the largest
02:17percentage reduction in homicides ever recorded in this country. And from initial data collected
02:26globally, we have only been surpassed by El Salvador during 2021 to 2023. So if you check the statistics,
02:38globally, we have had the largest percentage reduction in homicides. This reduction occurred without curfew,
02:48lockdown, any restrictions on movement, unlike the period in which he mismanaged the TTPS.
02:56Renasa Cutting, TV6 News.
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