For­mer at­tor­ney gen­er­al Garvin Nicholas says threats against pub­lic of­fi­cials are not un­usu­al, adding that this is one of the rea­sons gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials are pro­vid­ed with se­cu­ri­ty de­tails up­on tak­ing of­fice.

How­ev­er, he said while his­tor­i­cal­ly, such threats have rarely been act­ed up­on, the in­for­ma­tion should still be treat­ed with dis­cre­tion.

Nicholas made the com­ments on CNC3’s The Morn­ing Brew pro­gramme yes­ter­day, while re­spond­ing to re­ports of death threats against the Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (CoP) and his daugh­ters, as well as claims of mur­der plots tar­get­ing the Prime Min­is­ter and oth­er Gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials.