PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad — Trinidad and Tobago Attorney General, Anand Ramlogan, has called on Police Commissioner Dwayne Gibbs immediately to investigate claims that senior police officers take bribes in exchange for awarding firearm users licenses.
The Guardian newspaper reported that, in an interview, Ramlogan, who expressed concern about the allegations made by the president of the Police Service Social Welfare Association Anand Ramessar and secretary Michael Seales, said such claims raised the question, “Who will guard the guards?”
Saying that his office was not authorized to probe the allegations, Ramlogan said, “I am extremely concerned about these serious allegations. It raises the age-old problems of ‘who will guard the guards?’ I am of the view that the issues raised should be investigated. This is not the first time such allegations have been made. Indeed, the office of the Attorney General frequently receives complaints from aggrieved persons who have applied for firearm users licenses.”
He added that many of the applicants did not “have the courtesy of a response” even though their applications were duly processed and recommended for the award of a license.
They are reportedly delayed until a bribe is paid.
Allegations – where there is smoke, there is fire. What else is new?
The age-old bribery. This occurs in every part of the world. Canada/Toronto has had similar briberies as reported through the general Media. This is nothing new to us. We hear this all the time and including illegal drugs and stealing them when they go after the drug dealers and selling them too. Some of them have been caught and imprisoned. Is it any wonder that crimes continue to escalate?
The T & T government cannot control the numerous abductions, crimes and murders as much as their PM said that she will. I would love to see what she can do to eradicate such crimes. Is it all talk and no action? Time will tell.