On the day of her wed­ding an­niver­sary, amongst the heavy crit­i­cisms of the gen­er­al pub­lic of every move her hus­band, Gary Grif­fith, Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (CoP) makes, Nicole Dy­er-Grif­fith as­sures that they both—along with her mar­riage—are "good as gold."

On Mon­day morn­ing, top cop Gary Grif­fith took to Face­book, apol­o­gis­ing to her for not "tak­ing her out."

With the nu­mer­ous deaths threats made against his fam­i­ly, Grif­fith was forced to send his wife and son to a for­eign coun­try to live.

With the soar­ing mur­der rate, Grif­fith has come un­der heavy crit­i­cism in his fight against crime. His every ac­tion has be­come a top­ic for so­cial me­dia trolls.

"Hap­py An­niver­sary to my wife. Sor­ry, my dar­ling. I would have tak­en you out to­day,” he wrote, “but this coun­try has so many ed­u­cat­ed crit­ics, they may see some­one in the restau­rant, and ac­cuse them of be­ing a PNM, UNC or XYZ, or the bar­tender may have been a sus­pect some­where, so I may be con­demned for din­ing there, or some­one may come over to say hi, and be­cause his/her salary range is over $5,000 a month, I may be ac­cused of as­so­ci­at­ing my­self with white col­lar crim­i­nals. Sor­ry Nicole—this is what our so­ci­ety has be­come—af­ter putting my health on the line by work­ing 18 hours a day, 7 days a week; putting my life on the line dai­ly in an ef­fort to pull back this coun­try from the brink of de­cay; be­ing forced to have you and my son mi­grate be­cause of sev­er­al death threats on you. The thanks I get for this is at­tacks from every quar­ter, to the point that I am told not to so­cialise and be seen do­ing any­thing oth­er than work be­cause of the mur­der rate," Grif­fith said in his post.

He added: "So my apolo­gies my dar­ling. Over the last 14 months, I worked 18 hours a day, 7 days a week and this is seen as not enough. So I would be forced to elim­i­nate sleep­ing, or do­ing any­thing—like even tak­ing you out for din­ner—be­cause these wan­na be crime ex­perts say that a Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er should be more re­spon­si­ble due to crime in the coun­try."

An apology on their wedding anniversary from Police Commissioner Gary Griffith, to his wife, Nicole Dyer Griffith

GUARDIAN

Speak­ing with Guardian Me­dia, Dy­er-Grif­fith said she on­ly had con­trol over how she choose to re­spond to oth­ers.

She as­sures that she has her hus­band's en­tire be­ing.

"What they choose to say or think or feel is up to them... Rest as­sured, we’re as good as gold, as our fam­i­ly con­tin­ues to be lift­ed in prayer on a dai­ly ba­sis. In terms of be­ing sup­port­ive and hav­ing his back, know this, I have his en­tire be­ing, not on­ly his back."

Dy­er-Grif­fith de­scribes her hus­band as the most ded­i­cat­ed, in­tense and hard­work­ing hu­man she has ever en­coun­tered.

"So, crit­ics will crit­i­cize, and that’s their right. As is the right of the per­son be­ing crit­i­cized to re­spond. ‘Rights’ are not a one way street,” she points out. “Gary is one of the most ded­i­cat­ed, in­tense, and hard­work­ing hu­mans I have ever en­coun­tered. He is the most pas­sion­ate about his coun­try, and its cit­i­zen­ry. So much so that he places this above most else. That’s the guy. But then again, so am I, and so is our son. We all have rep­re­sent­ed our coun­try. We all have sac­ri­ficed for our coun­try. We all have ab­sorbed crit­i­cism, abuse, dis­dain, and neg­a­tiv­i­ty for our coun­try. And against all that, we will nev­er stop our ser­vice. It may change with time, but it’s in our DNA," Dy­er-Grif­fith said.

The top cop said it is in­deed time that he gives his crit­ics what they want.

"To those who have spent their time try­ing to de­monise me, I hope you and those who you love, are pre­pared to get what you ask for," Grif­fith said.