Geisha Kow­lessar

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."