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Monday, July 7, 2025

TOP COP: “Everything that can be done, will be done, to keep you safe…”

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JESSIE-MAY VENTOUR
1969 days ago
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Commissioner Griffith says the dedication of his team has ensured that the current crime situation in the country is not worse than it is, at present.

Commissioner Griffith says the dedication of his team has ensured that the current crime situation in the country is not worse than it is, at present.

GUARDIAN

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith has made yet an­oth­er ap­peal for the jus­tice sys­tem to en­sure that gun-tot­ing as­sas­sins stay be­hind bars.

Com­mis­sion­er Grif­fith says they’ve suc­ceed­ed in re­duc­ing every oth­er se­ri­ous crime, while homi­cides re­main a stick­ing point.

The top cop says the courts con­tin­ue to make it tougher for him and his team of po­lice of­fi­cers to keep the streets safe for or­di­nary cit­i­zens, by re­leas­ing known shoot­ers and gun­men back in­to so­ci­ety, far too quick­ly.

“323 per­sons we ar­rest­ed and the courts let out on bail,” he notes. “We have about 800 shoot­ers in the coun­try. If you keep the shoot­ers in prison, we could re­duce the homi­cide rate.”

And Com­mis­sion­er Grif­fith has promised the na­tion that there will be a heavy po­lice pres­ence for the 2020 Car­ni­val Sea­son.

The top cop says every man and woman in the ser­vice—in­clud­ing him—will be out and about, do­ing every­thing pos­si­ble to en­sure safe­ty and se­cu­ri­ty are para­mount dur­ing the mega fes­ti­val.

“Last year, if you re­call, it was an in­ci­dent free car­ni­val. We in­tend to do the same thing this year and make it even big­ger, bet­ter, safer,” the Com­mis­sion­er promis­es. “In all the dif­fer­ent cor­ners, you'll be see­ing two po­lice of­fi­cers. We have an Op­er­a­tional Com­mand Cen­tre. We'll be us­ing drones. We'll have Mo­bile Com­mand Cen­tres. As I said, every sin­gle event will be an op­er­a­tion.”

He added: “I give the as­sur­ance to the pub­lic—there is no need to be fear­ful. You just need to be care­ful.”

Com­mis­sion­er Grif­fith says the ded­i­ca­tion of his team has en­sured that the cur­rent crime sit­u­a­tion in the coun­try is not worse than it is, at present.

He notes the TTPS' ap­proval rat­ing has gone up from 14 per­cent in 2019, to 30 per cent this year.


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