Po­lit­i­cal Leader of the Na­tion­al Trans­for­ma­tion Al­liance, for­mer po­lice com­mis­sion­er and for­mer min­is­ter of na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty Gary Grif­fith has writ­ten to Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley and Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad Bisses­sar ask­ing them to put pol­i­tics aside and let him help in the fight against crime.

In a video mes­sage sent out on Sun­day, Grif­fith said he had a proven track record of re­duc­ing crime from his time as both Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter and Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice.

“The team that worked with me pre­vi­ous­ly can get this done,” Grif­fith said. “We do not need a posts or po­si­tions. I have the ca­pa­bil­i­ty not on­ly to guide those in au­thor­i­ty to do what is re­quired to peg back the crim­i­nal el­e­ments, but al­so to bring to­geth­er a team who pre­vi­ous­ly worked with me to man­age a sim­i­lar sce­nario and get it done again.”

He didn’t spec­i­fy who, ex­act­ly the team would com­prise. Grif­fith is call­ing for a meet­ing, he said, “to dis­cuss the im­ple­mentable strate­gies that worked pre­vi­ous­ly and to iden­ti­fy ways to pro­vide the sup­port and ex­per­tise re­quired to re­spond to this cur­rent crime cri­sis in our coun­try.”

He said hav­ing a re­gion­al crime con­fer­ence could do so much, but for short term so­lu­tions there must be di­a­logue with the rel­e­vant stake­hold­ers as quick­ly as pos­si­ble.