Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro has re­as­sured the pub­lic that more than 55,000 firearm files re­main se­cure, fol­low­ing a rup­ture in the fire sup­pres­sion sys­tem at the Po­lice Ad­min­is­tra­tion Build­ing, Port of Spain, on Mon­day.

In an au­dio state­ment, Gue­var­ro said, “Let me be ab­solute­ly clear be­cause I have seen and heard the com­ments and con­spir­a­cy the­o­ries on so­cial me­dia. The 55,000 plus firearm files are safe. The on­ly firearm files af­fect­ed were those brought to my of­fice for week­ly ad­ju­di­ca­tion. So there's no need for pan­ic.”

He ex­plained that the in­ci­dent was trig­gered by on­go­ing elec­tri­cal is­sues at the build­ing, de­scrib­ing it as “not a mod­ern fa­cil­i­ty… we are op­er­at­ing with just one el­e­va­tor. The cen­tral air con­di­tion­ing sys­tem does not func­tion in most ar­eas.”