Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (CoP) Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro has no in­ten­tion of step­ping down or bow­ing out – de­spite mount­ing pub­lic calls for him to be re­moved as head of the coun­try’s lead­ing na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty agency.

Speak­ing with Guardian Me­dia dur­ing an im­promp­tu in­ter­view at the Po­lice Ad­min­is­tra­tion Build­ing, Port-of-Spain, yes­ter­day, Gue­var­ro, when con­front­ed with the on­line furore over the po­lice killing of Joshua Sama­roo and calls for him to step down over his han­dling of it, said, “There is no need to step aside.”

Ex­tend­ing con­do­lences to griev­ing rel­a­tives, he said, “The loss of any life is sad and re­gret­table.”