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Saturday, July 5, 2025

Griffith writes PolSC on claims of plot to probe him by clandestine police unit

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1022 days ago
20220916
Former police commissioner Gary Griffith

Former police commissioner Gary Griffith

For­mer po­lice com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith has writ­ten to the Po­lice Ser­vice Com­mis­sion (PolSC), re­quest­ing a probe of in­for­ma­tion he’s re­ceived from sources con­cern­ing an al­leged “plot” to in­ves­ti­gate him and a “clan­des­tine” po­lice unit do­ing so.

He al­so claimed that as CoP, he was di­rect­ed to “per­son­al­ly in­ves­ti­gate and tar­get the Op­po­si­tion Leader and three oth­er po­lit­i­cal op­po­nents of Gov­ern­ment, with hope to have them ar­rest­ed.”

Grif­fith’s let­ter was dat­ed Sep­tem­ber 15. He sent sim­i­lar re­quests to the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions, Pro­fes­sion­al Stan­dards Bu­reau and Po­lice Com­plaints Au­thor­i­ty.

He said he’d re­ceived re­ports from “re­li­able and cred­i­ble sources with­in and out­side the TTPS,” and is seek­ing as­sis­tance to have the mat­ter thor­ough­ly in­ves­ti­gat­ed.

Grif­fith claimed the re­ports “in­volve di­rect in­ter­fer­ence” by Gov­ern­ment politi­cians to in­flu­ence cer­tain TTPS of­fi­cers, “with bribes of es­ca­lat­ed pro­mo­tion if they do what­ev­er they can to en­sure that I am ar­rest­ed.”

He claimed the rea­son for this was the need by “cer­tain politi­cians and a very se­nior po­lice of­fi­cer to have me ar­rest­ed, to be used as the av­enue to pre­vent me from be­ing el­i­gi­ble for con­sid­er­a­tion for the mer­it list process for Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er and by the time bo­gus charges are dropped, the dam­age would have al­ready been done.”

Con­cern about the “plot” was based on if some of the in­for­ma­tion was true.

He al­leged the “plot” in­cludes:

• Gov­ern­ment hand pick­ing three sets of cit­i­zens–whose record he queried–to “in­ves­ti­gate le­gal firearms be­ing is­sued.”

• Names se­lect­ed by PolSC to con­duct ini­tial in­ves­ti­ga­tions/au­dit in­to firearms of the TTPS were giv­en by Gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials. “If ac­cu­rate, this too can lead to mis­be­hav­iour in of­fice,” he said.

• A “clan­des­tine un­named unit,” which “re­li­able sources in TTPS” told him about and which was ap­point­ed to see if any­thing can be found to have Grif­fith ar­rest­ed.

• Funds de­posit­ed in­to TTPS ac­count to be used sole­ly to tar­get po­lit­i­cal op­po­nents. Grif­fith claimed he was giv­en $45 mil­lion in the TTPS’ ac­count and told it was to be used specif­i­cal­ly to hire cer­tain for­eign at­tor­neys, with­out ten­der, to tar­get cas­es in­volv­ing Gov­ern­ment’s po­lit­i­cal op­po­nents. He claimed he was di­rect­ed to “per­son­al­ly in­ves­ti­gate and tar­get the Op­po­si­tion Leader and three oth­er po­lit­i­cal op­po­nents of the Gov­ern­ment, with hope to have them ar­rest­ed.”

• “Re­li­ably in­formed” the act­ing CoP is by­pass­ing the PSB head and “de­lib­er­ate­ly li­ais­ing with a ju­nior con­sta­ble” to en­sure in­ves­ti­ga­tions on him ex­pe­dit­ed.

“If true this is high­ly in­ap­pro­pri­ate and al­so can be linked to the plot to have me ar­rest­ed,” he said.

• Al­so “in­formed” the ju­nior of­fi­cer met with a very se­nior Gov­ern­ment min­is­ter at the Diplo­mat­ic Cen­tre.

• “In­formed” of politi­cians of­fer­ing se­nior po­lice of­fi­cers to be giv­en sub­stan­tive posts if they suc­ceed in get­ting him ar­rest­ed. “If true and such an of­fer was made those politi­cians have yet again bro­ken the law,” he added.

Se­nior po­lice and Gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials didn’t re­ply to calls on the al­le­ga­tions yes­ter­day.


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