FORMER commissioner of police (CoP) Gary Griffith has expressed concern that the decision to relocate inmates from prisons to military facilities at Teteron Barracks and Staubles Bay in Chaguaramas during the state of emergency (SoE), represents a surrender to the criminals.

Griffith is also a former national security minister and a former captain in the TT Regiment, one of the arms of the TT Defence Force (TTDF).

In a statement on July 19, Griffith said, "The biggest concern of all was the decision to virtually surrender to the criminal elements by removing prisoners from our prisons and having them transferred to a military base to have our own Guantanamo Bay."