An­na-Lisa Paul

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith has asked those chal­leng­ing his of­fi­cers’ de­ci­sion to raid and seize funds from the Drugs Sou Sou in La Hor­quet­ta on Tues­day, whether they feel any shame.

In a strong­ly-word­ed state­ment yes­ter­day, Grif­fith con­demned what he saw as degra­da­tion of so­ci­ety by ac­cept­ing wrong-do­ing.

He has, how­ev­er, pledged to re­main true to his char­ac­ter and the oath he took to pro­tect cit­i­zens.

Grif­fith not­ed that many had been voic­ing their “anger, ha­tred, and bit­ter­ness to­wards him.”

He said, “That is your right to do so, but when it reached a point of per­sons voic­ing their dis­gust over the ter­ri­ble act of a Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er go­ing above and be­yond, to in­ves­ti­gate and re­trieve $22 mil­lion in cash, that can­not be ac­count­ed for, and when wrong­ful­ly re­turned with­out con­fir­ma­tion that all of that cash was giv­en via le­git­i­mate and law-abid­ing cit­i­zens, I can con­clude that the val­ues of many in this coun­try, sum up why we as a na­tion have be­come what we are.”

He slammed those who claim that the so-called ‘one per cent’ get bet­ter treat­ment say­ing they of­ten use those re­marks to jus­ti­fy wrong­do­ing.

“To these in­di­vid­u­als, do you have any shame? Is that what you would ex­pect from your chil­dren? But enough of you. If that is your char­ac­ter, and your plea­sure is to at­tack those who try to help you, whilst say­ing lit­tle about those who rob, rape, and try to kill you, that is your priv­i­lege.”

He said po­lice com­mis­sion­ers around the world had been con­tact­ing him say­ing they are ap­palled that cit­i­zens could be up­set by a Com­mis­sion­er do­ing all he can to en­sure a crime is not com­mit­ted.

Police officers go through a document at a home in Kathleen Warner Drive, Phase 1, La Horquetta during the police execution of a search warrant on the property Tuesday.

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“Many of them are al­so amused about the “many wan­na-be po­lice of­fi­cers” in this coun­try, who could be so naive to say that a Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er should have known that if one of 8,000 plus of­fi­cers, makes a de­ci­sion at 5 am in a po­lice sta­tion, to wrong­ful­ly re­turn the cash, so it is his fault.”

He added: “To those who are up­set by the hor­ri­ble act of a Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er seiz­ing $22 mil­lion in cash in a house, (be­cause ap­par­ent­ly, this hap­pens every day in every house), not say­ing that it is, but sup­pose some of that mon­ey was to be used for drugs, mon­ey laun­der­ing, gang ac­tiv­i­ty, or to pur­chase weapons that can kill your fam­i­ly?”

Grif­fith ar­gued that some of the peo­ple who are up­set with him for try­ing to close an al­leged Pyra­mid Scheme are say­ing it is be­ing done to “fight down poor peo­ple”, and that the po­lice should “give the peo­ple back their mon­ey.”

“Ig­no­rance is in­deed a com­mon fac­tor by some, as ei­ther based on ig­no­rance or be­ing a crook, how could one sleep at night know­ing that you are putting in $10,000 and when giv­en $50,000, it is 4 to 5 “oth­er poor peo­ple” who would lose $10,000 when the Pyra­mid Schemes col­lapse, and $10,000 turn­ing in­to $50,000 overnight, be­comes “your mon­ey.”

He added, “No smart peo­ple! It is “oth­er poor peo­ple” mon­ey that you are tak­ing, but your greed and lack of com­mon sense would pre­vent you from un­der­stand­ing that.”

He said he will con­tin­ue on his path of try­ing to make T&T a bet­ter coun­try.

Officers of the Special Operations Response Team in La Horquetta today.

Abraham Diaz

“I have been run­ning my blood to wa­ter for two years, putting my health at risk, work­ing 18 hours a day, sev­en days a week for two years, try­ing my best to serve my coun­try to the best of my abil­i­ty, and in re­turn, the spe­cif­ic haters get a sense of ac­com­plish­ment by re­fer­ring to me in the worst way they can, and this is okay, but if I call cold-blood­ed crim­i­nals, or those who rape your wife, or kid­nap your son, a cock­roach, then I am the dev­il. This sums up our na­tion.”

He con­clud­ed, “I don’t need to be ap­pre­ci­at­ed, but to re­ceive in re­turn, at­tacks, ven­om, hate and bit­ter­ness, says a lot about oth­ers.”

“So whilst cer­tain peo­ple con­tin­ue do­ing what they are good that, which is to fo­cus on at­tack­ing, crit­i­ciz­ing, and hat­ing whilst not be­ing pro­duc­tive, I would con­tin­ue to do the best I can to serve my God and the cit­i­zens of this coun­try.”