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Wednesday, July 9, 2025

PCA probes events of traffic stop involving Griffith’s daughter

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1553 days ago
20210408
David West

David West

SHAR­LENE RAM­PER­SAD

The Po­lice Com­plaints Au­thor­i­ty (PCA) is in­ves­ti­gat­ing a traf­fic stop in­volv­ing the Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er’s daugh­ter and her hus­band on Mon­day.

This was con­firmed to Guardian Me­dia Lim­it­ed yes­ter­day by PCA head David West.

West was asked whether any com­plaint was made to the Au­thor­i­ty by ei­ther T’Shau­na Grif­fith-Bain or her hus­band Da Vvian Bain.

He con­firmed that an in­ves­ti­ga­tion had been start­ed but did not want to dis­close whether it was trig­gered by com­plaints made by the cou­ple.

“I don’t want to give out de­tails of the in­ves­ti­ga­tion. PCA is in­ves­ti­gat­ing,” West wrote.

He point­ed out that the PCA can launch its own in­ves­ti­ga­tions un­der Sec­tion 26 of the PCA Act.

The sec­tion states: “The Au­thor­i­ty may con­duct an in­ves­ti­ga­tion on its own ini­tia­tive or on the ba­sis of a com­plaint made by a mem­ber of the pub­lic, a po­lice of­fi­cer, a pub­lic body or au­thor­i­ty, or the ap­pro­pri­ate unit or a dis­ci­pli­nary tri­bunal of the Po­lice Ser­vice.”

The cou­ple both post­ed their ac­counts of the in­ci­dent on so­cial me­dia on Tues­day, al­leg­ing mis­con­duct by the of­fi­cers who stopped them in Cou­va on Mon­day.

Videos shot by two of­fi­cers in­volved in the stop were shared wide­ly on so­cial me­dia on Mon­day evening.

In the video, one of­fi­cer can be heard say­ing Grif­fith-Bain told him she was ex­empt­ed from be­ing stopped be­cause she is the Com­mis­sion­er’s daugh­ter.

Both Grif­fith-Bain and her hus­band de­nied this al­le­ga­tion dur­ing the video and in their sub­se­quent posts to so­cial me­dia.

In her ac­count, Grif­fith-Bain said she was body searched by a WPC with­out rea­son.

She said she was ‘great­ly dis­turbed’ that the record­ings were post­ed to so­cial me­dia, in­clud­ing her iden­ti­ty, her face and the li­cense plate of her ve­hi­cle, which she said will put both her and her hus­band’s safe­ty at risk.

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith has said he will not get in­volved in the in­ci­dent. 


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