Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice, Gary Grif­fith, has test­ed neg­a­tive for COVID-19.

The com­mis­sion­er was test­ed af­ter be­ing in con­tact with some­one who was a sec­ondary con­tact of an­oth­er per­son sus­pect­ed of be­ing pos­i­tive.

Mr Grif­fith stat­ed the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) has been the front­line State agency since the COVID19 Pan­dem­ic wors­ened in March 2020. He said, “This just shows how sus­cep­ti­ble the TTPS is due to the manda­to­ry in­ter­ac­tion with the pub­lic.

Since the clo­sure of our bor­ders and the en­force­ment of the Pub­lic Health Or­di­nance Reg­u­la­tions in March, the men and women of the TTPS have been out there en­sur­ing that mem­bers of the pub­lic ad­here to the rules.

“We have been in­ter­act­ing with the pub­lic on the reg­u­la­tions en­sur­ing that they do the right thing, and at the same time, do­ing our nor­mal du­ties of pro­tect­ing the cit­i­zens.

We have con­tin­ued with our an­ti-crime mea­sures and as you can see, we have been very suc­cess­ful, es­pe­cial­ly dur­ing the lock­down pe­ri­od. Over the week­end alone, we seized 15 firearms and a wide as­sort­ment of am­mu­ni­tion at dif­fer­ent lo­ca­tions.”

The CoP added, “Clear­ly, we have been in­ter­act­ing with the pub­lic and with that comes the pos­si­ble ex­po­sure to per­sons with the virus or their sec­ondary and pri­ma­ry con­tacts. We have en­gaged the men and women of the TTPS to be ex­tra care­ful as we are now see­ing