Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith has giv­en po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tors un­til mid­day to­day to ex­plain on what grounds they raid­ed the home of Goo­ma­tee Rag­bir, the maid of for­mer at­tor­ney gen­er­al Anand Ram­lo­gan.

Grif­fith said the An­ti Cor­rup­tion and In­ves­ti­ga­tions Bu­reau (ACIB) had no knowl­edge of the raid, nor did the head of the South­ern Di­vi­sion ACP Zamsheed Mo­hammed.

"I have no knowl­edge what­so­ev­er of that tak­ing place. The ACIB has the sole au­thor­i­ty in that mat­ter in­volv­ing Ram­lo­gan and they have no knowl­edge of any op­er­a­tion at the home of Mr Ram­lo­gan's maid. I spoke to the head of the South­ern Di­vi­sion and he is al­so not aware," Grif­fith said.

"It was brought to my at­ten­tion that a cer­tain arm of the po­lice ser­vice was re­spon­si­ble. I pre­fer not to make any fur­ther com­ment un­til I get more de­tails. I have giv­en them un­til mid­day to­day to give me a re­port to as­cer­tain on what grounds was it that such a search was con­duct­ed and un­der whose au­tho­riza­tion."

Mean­while, MP for Oropouche East Dr Roodal Mooni­lal said Rag­bir is his con­stituent and he is con­vinced she was a vic­tim of rogue po­lice.

"I am con­cerned by the sus­pi­cious co­in­ci­dence aris­ing from this event in the af­ter­math of the ar­rest and charg­ing of Mr Ram­lo­gan, " Mooni­lal said.

He said Rag­bir made se­ri­ous al­le­ga­tions about po­lice con­duct.

"It sug­gests that we have el­e­ments of the po­lice ser­vice that have gone rogue. I can con­firm that nei­ther Com­mis­sion­er Grif­fith, not Zamsheed Mo­hammed knew any­thing about this in­ves­ti­ga­tion. It is very sus­pi­cious and co­in­ci­den­tal all these years for the po­lice to sug­gest there are arms and am­mu­ni­tion at the maid's house."

Mooni­lal added: "I think we are in­to a reign of ter­ror by cer­tain el­e­ments of the po­lice ser­vice. They are out of con­trol and the Com­mis­sion­er has his hands full try­ing to come to terms with that de­vel­op­ment."

He added that even though the po­lice showed a war­rant, there were suf­fi­cient grounds to sue.

"If the war­rant was ob­tained with mal­ice or poor in­ten­tions you can sue. I am con­cerned by the in­ten­tions that led to this. It may be part of some­thing that is deep­er and dark­er. I warned this coun­try that we are in for a long road. It is very se­ri­ous. I am as­sured by the Com­mis­sion­er that he is in­ves­ti­gat­ing by the hour and will have some­thing to say soon, " Mooni­lal said.