CHESTER SAM­BRA­NO

For­mer Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice, Gary Grif­fith, has ac­cused the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice’s So­cial and Wel­fare As­so­ci­a­tion (TTPSS­WA) of sell­ing out by ac­cept­ing the gov­ern­ment's four per cent salary in­crease of­fer.

In a state­ment, Grif­fith said:

"4%? The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice Wel­fare As­so­ci­a­tion must have sold out. No oth­er ex­pla­na­tion makes sense."

Grif­fith said it is amaz­ing that when­ev­er PNM is in of­fice, how eas­i­ly they get cer­tain in­sti­tu­tions to cave in.

"As a pre­vi­ous Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter un­der a non-PNM Gov­ern­ment, there was no way that Rame­sar and Seales, as the then-heads of the Wel­fare As­so­ci­a­tion, would have ac­cept­ed this slap in the face of every Of­fi­cer; and right­ly so," he said.