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  • 1 year ago
The political leader of the National Transformation Alliance, former Police Commissioner Gary Griffith says the police's detention of two suspects in the Health Minister's gold bracelet robbery at gunpoint is good, intelligence-driven policing.

However, the leader of the N-T-A- says this same level of policing should be applied to solving many other crimes in this country.

This, as the former police commissioner reitered his intention to contest the St Joseph seat in Parliament represented by the Health Minister since late 2013.

Juhel Browne reports.
Transcript
00:00The NTA political leader and former police commissioner is weighing in on the response
00:05by the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service to an incident involving Health Minister Terence
00:09Nyalsing being robbed of a gold bracelet at gunpoint in St. Joseph on Tuesday.
00:15Well it has been brought to the attention of the public that the perpetrators have been
00:19apprehended by the police which is good but what I will hope for is that the exact type
00:24of response, intelligence driven policing, the number of police officers spending so
00:29much time to pinpoint these criminal elements who would have committed such an act on the
00:36minister that the same thing should be done for each and every citizen of this country
00:40because we do realize that there are tens of thousands of crimes that take place annually
00:44and they would not be solved.
00:46Mr. Griffith issued an audio recorded statement on Thursday.
00:49On Wednesday the police service said in a statement that several persons are being interviewed
00:54and assisting the police in their investigations which were being conducted by the St. Joseph
00:59Criminal Investigations Department.
01:02TV6 News and the Express Newspaper reported that on Tuesday evening police officers acting
01:08on intelligence intercepted a blue Hyundai Elantra at Paul Street in Port of Spain which
01:14matched the description of the getaway vehicle used in the robbery of Minister Nyalsing and
01:20that the two men in the car at the time were detained and questioned and have since been
01:24handed over to officers of the St. Joseph Police Station.
01:28So the same amount of vigor and excitement and hard good policing to be able to pinpoint
01:35the perpetrators on Minister Nyalsing should be done for each and every citizen of this
01:40country.
01:41Mr. Griffith then referred to his intention to contest the St. Joseph constituency in
01:46the next general election which is represented in the parliament by Mr. Nyalsing.
01:51The old time policing perception by some that every single time there's a crime you put
01:55a police station there and it is going to stop a crime.
01:58Where the minister was was probably a stone's throw away from a police station.
02:02Police stations is not an avenue to reduce crime.
02:05That's why when I stated that I intend to make St. Joseph safe again and I will do the
02:08same in every constituency when I become part of the next government to be able to reignite
02:13the same things that made the country feel safer.
02:16Mr. Nyalsing who has been the health minister since September 11, 2015 was first elected
02:23the St. Joseph MP in November 2013 by election.
02:29He retained that constituency for the PNM when the party won the 2015 and 2020 general
02:36elections.
02:37The next general election is due next year 2025.
02:42Jule Brown, TV6 News.
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