For­mer Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith has crit­i­cised the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) for is­su­ing a me­dia re­lease in­di­cat­ing that it would rec­om­mend an­oth­er State of Emer­gency (SoE).

Re­spond­ing to Guardian Me­dia‘s ques­tions this morn­ing, Grif­fith chas­tised the Po­lice Ser­vice’s lead­er­ship for dis­clos­ing what he de­scribed as clas­si­fied, sen­si­tive in­for­ma­tion to the pub­lic—es­pe­cial­ly as it in­volved a pur­port­ed large-scale or­gan­ised crime threat.

“You let the pub­lic and the crim­i­nals be aware that we [the po­lice] don’t have the ca­pa­bil­i­ties to se­cure you, so we want the gov­ern­ment to help us by call­ing a State of Emer­gency.