Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Gary Grif­fith has said he is will­ing to meet with Dar­ren Joseph, the hus­band of Or­nel­la Greaves de­spite Joseph's state­ments to­wards him on live tele­vi­sion.

Greaves, 30, was fa­tal­ly shot dur­ing a con­fronta­tion and po­lice and pro­test­ers at Beetham Gar­dens on Tues­day.

She was preg­nant with what would have been her sixth child and her fifth child with Joseph.

An in­ves­ti­ga­tion is on­go­ing con­cern­ing who shot her.

Dur­ing a live in­ter­view, a dis­traught Joseph ex­pressed what he would do should he meet Com­mis­sion­er Grif­fith.

The Top Cop con­firmed he would still meet with Joseph de­spite the out­burst.

"Yeah I will speak to the in­di­vid­ual even though he said what he in­tend­ed to do to me and my fam­i­ly. I un­der­stand he is hurt­ing and ob­vi­ous­ly I would be more than will­ing to meet with him, "said Grif­fith dur­ing a TTPS press con­fer­ence on Wednes­day morn­ing.

Grif­fith al­so ac­knowl­edged the pos­si­bil­i­ty that ri­val gangs col­lud­ed to put to­geth­er yes­ter­day's demon­stra­tion which he main­tained was an at­tempt to destab­lise the coun­try.

" It is quite pos­si­ble. It is amaz­ing that the vast ma­jor­i­ty of 538 mur­ders last year was based on one group try­ing to kill oth­ers in the oth­er group and what brings them to­geth­er is the en­e­my of my en­e­my is my friend. And if that is what two mur­der­ous gangs to­geth­er, to try to form some sort of strate­gic al­liance it says a lot about the char­ac­ter of those in­di­vid­u­als," said the Com­mis­sion­er.

Grif­fith al­so hit back at a news­pa­per ed­i­to­r­i­al which crit­i­cised his de­ci­sion to stay at the op­er­a­tion com­mand cen­tre, as he ex­plained that was a tac­ti­cal ap­proach to han­dling a man-made or nat­ur­al dis­as­ter.
He al­so slammed the news­pa­per's sug­ges­tion that the po­lice had no ev­i­dence that there was a plot to desta­bilise the coun­try, as he said it dis­cred­it­ed the coun­try's in­tel­li­gence agency.

Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Jayson Forde re­vealed mem­bers of the pub­lic al­so tipped off the po­lice to Tues­day's events.

"Be­cause of our part­ner­ship with our cit­i­zens we were get­ting snip­pets of in­for­ma­tion since the night be­fore that some type of dis­rup­tion was planned for yes­ter­day. What we did not have was the mag­ni­tude, the scale that this dis­rup­tion was about. So we pre-planned and even though we pre-planned be­cause that op­er­a­tion was cal­cu­lat­ed, and when you look at what hap­pened yes­ter­day it was cal­cu­lat­ed," said Forde.

Re­porter: Pe­ter Christo­pher