For­mer Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith is no longer pulling his punch­es re­gard­ing the per­for­mance of cur­rent Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (CoP) Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro, whom he has de­scribed as “des­per­ate,” “pet­ty” and “com­i­cal.”

This lat­est es­ca­la­tion comes as un­der­ly­ing ten­sions be­tween them heat up, over the non-use of body cam­eras that the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) ac­quired dur­ing his tenure.

Tak­ing to so­cial me­dia as he blast­ed Gue­var­ro, who broke his si­lence re­gard­ing the ac­qui­si­tion and use of body cam­eras by the TTPS on Mon­day, Grif­fith said, “Be­cause of his ap­par­ent fear and ig­no­rance of tech­nol­o­gy, he does not un­der­stand that when you make a com­ment, it can be eas­i­ly ver­i­fied by any mem­ber of the pub­lic via on­line re­search, in a sim­i­lar man­ner to his claim that a radar de­signed to tar­get and in­ter­cept mis­siles could have de­tect­ed il­le­gal drugs in a swamp.”