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Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Dwayne Gibbs has told the Po­lice Ser­vice Com­mis­sion (PSC) that he must be judged on his own mer­it and it would be un­fair to cas­ti­gate him if in­di­vid­ual of­fi­cers fail to per­form. Gibbs was grilled by mem­bers of the PSC when he ap­peared on Thurs­day around 11 am. A source close to the PSC said Gibbs, who was ques­tioned by the com­mis­sion for some two hours seemed "very ner­vous and wor­ried." The source said Gibbs kept on in­sist­ing that his per­for­mance as po­lice com­mis­sion­er must not be tar­nished if in­di­vid­ual of­fi­cers were not up to par on their per­for­mance and ded­i­ca­tion to du­ty.

Gibbs, the source added, al­so gave the im­pres­sion that he was "wor­ried about los­ing his job" at the end of his three-year con­tract. The bribery al­le­ga­tion in­volv­ing Works and Trans­port Min­is­ter Jack Warn­er was al­so raised by the PSC. Gibbs was ques­tioned as to what was the progress of the probe and when it was ex­pect­ed to be com­plet­ed. The source said Gibbs as­sured the com­mis­sion that in­ves­ti­ga­tions were "on­go­ing." 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." This is­sue of To­ba­go as it re­lat­ed to the af­fairs of the Po­lice Ser­vice was al­so raised. The source said Gibbs told the PSC that there were "spe­cif­ic plans" for To­ba­go one of which in­clud­ed as­sign­ing an As­sis­tant Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er (ACP) to the sis­ter isle.