Six months af­ter Gary Grif­fith was ap­point­ed Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er doc­tors have or­dered him to get some rest.

On Sun­day, Grif­fith checked him­self in­to the St Clair Med­ical Cen­tre in Port-of-Spain af­ter feel­ing un­well.

Grif­fith’s wife, Nicole Dy­er-Grif­fith, in a tele­phone in­ter­view on Mon­day, con­firmed that he is now at the Com­mis­sion­er’s of­fi­cial res­i­dence in St James re­cu­per­at­ing.

“He is much bet­ter to­day. Yes­ter­day (Sun­day) we took him in­to St Clair. He was ex­pe­ri­enc­ing some pret­ty se­vere ab­dom­i­nal cramps so he spent most of the day there, he had to be re­hy­drat­ed. He was very de­hy­drat­ed.

“He had some IV ther­a­py and he had some rou­tine tests un­der­tak­en. Af­ter a few hours, they said it was okay for him to go home and come,” ex­plained Dy­er-Grif­fith.

She said her hus­band was still on the job op­er­at­ing from his make-shift of­fice at home tak­ing calls and di­rect­ing his charges.

Com­mis­sion­er Grif­fith was ap­point­ed on Au­gust 17, last year and has been lead­ing his of­fi­cers on sev­er­al crime-fight­ing ini­tia­tives in­clud­ing drug busts, re­cov­er­ing kid­nap vic­tims and road­blocks.

Asked whether he had been work­ing too hard, his wife replied, “Amongst oth­er things, but you know that is not go­ing to change any time soon. That is just writ­ten in­to his DNA and that is the on­ly way we both know.”

Dy­er-Grif­fith said it was a mat­ter of putting things in place and en­sur­ing the ba­sics are fol­lowed up and “you eat on time and get some rest at some point in time but as I said his dri­ve and push is not go­ing to change.”

Dy­er-Grif­fith said she stayed at home to en­sure her hus­band com­plied with doc­tor’s or­ders.