Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro has made good on his promise to be­gin re­view­ing Firearm Users Li­cence (FUL) ap­pli­ca­tions, hav­ing com­plet­ed the first batch of files which had been piled atop his desk at the Po­lice Ad­min­is­tra­tion Build­ing, Port-of-Spain.

In re­turn­ing them to the Firearms Per­mit Unit (FPU) for prompt dis­patch yes­ter­day, he said it was keep­ing in line with his promise to en­sure fair­ness, trans­paren­cy and ef­fi­cien­cy in the ap­pli­ca­tion process. Reaf­firm­ing his com­mit­ment to stream­lin­ing the firearm li­cens­ing process and elim­i­nat­ing un­nec­es­sary bot­tle­necks, the top cop in­sist­ed all fu­ture sub­mis­sions sent to his of­fice will be ad­dressed ex­pe­di­tious­ly.

Say­ing he was await­ing the next batch of files for re­view as part of the con­tin­ued push for pro­ce­dur­al clar­i­ty and pub­lic ac­count­abil­i­ty, the CoP al­so di­rect­ed that no sup­port­ing doc­u­ments were to be sub­mit­ted di­rect­ly to the FPU.