The Police Service Commission (PSC) has sought further information from Police Commissioner Dwayne Gibbs on the police handling of bribery allegations involving Works and Infrastructure Minister Jack Warner. The commission's chairman Prof Ramesh Deosaran said he communicated with Gibbs last week on the matter. Deosaran said so at the launch of the commission's Web site at the Hilton Trinidad and Conference Centre, St Ann's, on Thursday. "We pledged to communicate with the commissioner for further information and we have done so last week," Deosaran said.
Gibbs, he added, was yet to provide the commission with the information. It was alleged that Warner, in his capacity as president of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU), at a meeting at the Hyatt Regency Hotel on May 10 and 11, 2011 offered US$40,000 to 25 countries represented at the meeting for their support of FIFA executive Mohamed bin Hammam. There also has been controversy surrounding the probe as last month Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Roger Gaspard said Warner was not cleared of the allegations. In fact, the DPP said he told police investigations should be continued in the context of the Customs Act. However, correspondence from the commission to Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley said Gibbs informed the commission, by letter dated March 2012, that "on the advice of the DPP, no further action can be taken in this matter."