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With one year now complete in office, former Minister of National Security and former Commissioner of Police, Gary Griffith, is assessing the government's performance through the lens of crime and national security.

Nicole M Romany has more.
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00:00Former Top Corp Gary Griffith weighs in on the brutal murder and robbery at the San Fernando
00:06Municipal Police Station claiming the life of Officer Anoushka Eversley, saying it is perplexing
00:12that a large quantity of firearms was reportedly stolen with no clear accounting of the exact
00:19number missing. Just by a commissioner stating it was 60 weapons stolen, a few days later it said
00:26the ACP says it could be over 100. That alone is my biggest concern. That is madness. In the
00:33Trinidad-Tobago Defence Force when I was a second lieutenant and lieutenant or lieutenant there's
00:37something called an orderly officer. Twice per day you have to go and go to every single armory whether
00:43it's Kampogden, Kamuto barracks, Tetron barracks, the officer of the day has to check every single weapon.
00:48He further argues that the police complaints authority should include independent police officers
00:54to strengthen the integrity of investigations into cases involving law enforcement personnel.
01:01We cannot have police investigating police. That is what caused the firearm, that firearm
01:06disaster of all of this audit and all of that. When it says all the lies were being stated and
01:11then
01:12even by this commissioner, he spoke about a problem with firearms and you're a commissioner of police
01:16and five years later not one person has been arrested for anything that was put in that fake
01:21audit report but you as a commissioner speaking about it so it means that you're not working on
01:24evidence but rum shop talk. On the broader issue of crime, Griffith says while he believes the
01:32government is moving in the right direction, he does not see a state of emergency as a cure-all for
01:38tackling the country's crime problem. So my point being is that for this government to succeed in stating that
01:44we have achieved, you need to have the same type of results in 2014 or 2021 without a state of
01:50emergency.
01:51You have to pull that state of emergency, that trump card that you're using to show that we can lock
01:56down this country without taking away constitutional rights and just arresting people based on hearsay.
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