Gary Grif­fith is now act­ing as Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (CoP), as his three-year term has come to an end.

He will act in the role un­til the next CoP is ap­point­ed.

Guardian Me­dia has been told that the Po­lice Ser­vice Com­mis­sion (PSC) has al­ready com­plet­ed in­ter­views and as­sess­ments.

“So, ba­si­cal­ly, right now, it’s lit­er­al­ly for it to go to Par­lia­ment, so cur­rent­ly, Grif­fith is on a ‘short work’ for a few days as act­ing,” a TTPS source told Guardian Me­dia.

Grif­fith yes­ter­day con­firmed he was act­ing in the po­si­tion as of yes­ter­day but de­clined to com­ment fur­ther.

Con­tact­ed yes­ter­day, for­mer Po­lice Ser­vice Com­mis­sion mem­ber Mar­tin George said re­cent in­ci­dents in­volv­ing po­lice of­fi­cers may not im­pact Grif­fith’s ap­pli­ca­tion and re­view by the PSC.

“At first blush, it may not ap­pear to do so, un­less it can be shown that he is some­how re­spon­si­ble for or ac­tive­ly en­cour­aged/con­doned their be­hav­iours in this re­gard; and I don’t think I have seen any ev­i­dence of such, so from where I sit, I can­not see these is­sues hav­ing an im­pact,” George said.

He said he al­so sup­ports calls of for­mer PSC mem­bers for greater trans­paren­cy/clar­i­ty in the new CoP se­lec­tion process.