Se­nior Po­lit­i­cal Re­porter

For­mer po­lice com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith has crit­i­cised Gov­ern­ment’s plan to in­crease the strength of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) from 7,884 of­fi­cers to 10,200 over five years, ar­gu­ing that ac­count­abil­i­ty and lead­er­ship, not man­pow­er, are the re­al is­sues fac­ing the or­gan­i­sa­tion.

Speak­ing af­ter Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der an­nounced the phased re­cruit­ment pro­gramme in Par­lia­ment last Fri­day, Grif­fith de­scribed the ini­tia­tive as “not a se­ri­ous crime-fight­ing strat­e­gy.”