Police Commissioner Dwayne Gibbs is assuring that the Police Service is "quietly doing what it has do to" regarding calls to have Works and Infrastructure Minister Jack Warner investigated. And Gibbs has not ruled out the possibility of Warner being questioned by the police. Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley wrote to Gibbs in June, raising the question of a possible breach of the foreign exchange and other laws of T&T by Warner, then a FIFA vice-president, in the wake of the allegations involving then presidential candidate Mohamed bin Hammam which also implicated Warner, who denied the allegations.
Rowley also accused Gibbs of "sitting on his hands," charging that the top cop did not know how to proceed with police investigations because he was "pandering to the political directorate and sending the signal that certain persons are too big for the police to interfere with them." Gibbs, however, painted a different picture while speaking to the media, after the launch of a training programme involving the Police Complaints Authority (PCA) and the Joint Partnership Project on Criminal Justice for investigators which was held at the Waterfront Complex, Port-of-Spain. "We've been quietly probing that investigation and it is going on and we're doing what we have to do," Gibbs said.
Asked whether he had questioned Warner, the top cop said he was yet to do so. When question further whether he had any intention of interrogating Warner Gibbs replied: "Those questions I can't comment on because the matter is under investigation. "But if it leads to a point where there is questioning of Mr Warner, then that will take place." Gibbs said he sent a letter to FIFA in June this year, following which he received a response. He, however, refused to divulge details of the correspondence. "It's an investigation that we're taking a look at and we're quietly probing it," he said. "We need to keep that information close to us for us to have an opportunity to complete that investigation."