Griffith defends Maloney operation; accuses critics of hypocrisy

For­mer Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith has de­fend­ed the Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to es­tab­lish a Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Zone in Mal­oney, ar­gu­ing that re­stric­tions on move­ment can be jus­ti­fied when nec­es­sary to pro­tect lives and com­bat vi­o­lent crime.

In a state­ment is­sued this morn­ing, Grif­fith ac­cused crit­ics of the op­er­a­tion of po­lit­i­cal hypocrisy, point­ing to move­ment re­stric­tions im­posed un­der the pre­vi­ous Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) ad­min­is­tra­tion dur­ing the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic.

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Grif­fith said that, while serv­ing as Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice, he per­son­al­ly au­tho­rised ap­prox­i­mate­ly 25,000 per­mits for es­sen­tial per­son­nel to move dur­ing the pub­lic health re­stric­tions.