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As calls in­ten­si­fy for the Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (CoP) Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro to re­sign, there are warn­ings that in­creased na­tion­wide protests could be loom­ing if he con­tin­ues to ig­nore the pop­u­la­tion’s cries.

This, from First Wave Move­ment leader Umar Ab­dul­lah, who con­tin­ues to crit­i­cise the CoP’s han­dling of the Jan­u­ary 20 fa­tal po­lice shoot­ing of 31-year-old Joshua Sama­roo in St Au­gus­tine. The in­ci­dent left Sama­roo’s com­mon-law wife Ka­ia Sealy, 28, paral­ysed.

In a let­ter to Gue­var­ro yes­ter­day, ti­tled “De­mand for Ac­count­abil­i­ty, Re­form, and Your Res­ig­na­tion Com­mis­sion­er,” Ab­dul­lah said, “Your re­fusal to sus­pend or de­tain the of­fi­cers in­volved, and your de­ci­sion in­stead to pro­vide coun­selling while al­low­ing them to con­tin­ue armed du­ty, is in­de­fen­si­ble.”