Police Commissioner Gary Griffith has completed one year in office on August 15th 2019.
A survey commissioned by the TTPS showed that 76 percent of the respondents had confidence in the new police commissioner while 79 percent approved the performance of Griffith.
At a news conference on Friday Griffith announced the introduction of new badges for police officers and a number of initiatives undertaken during his tenure. These included:
Technology
- Three Operation Command Centres
- Body Cameras on Police officers
- 50 Vehicles outfitted with cameras
- Emergency Response Vehicles monitored with GPS
New/Improved Units
- Emergency Response Patrols (ERP)
- Special Operations Response Team (SORT)
- Special Investigations Unit (SIU)
- White Collar Crime Unit
- Specialised Team Assigned to Maximum Security Prisons
- Revamped E-999
Operations
- Operation Strike Back; 27 Exercises, 940 arrests, 33 guns, 370 rounds of ammo and 123.5 kgs in narcotics seized
- Solved 11 High-profiled kidnappings cases without ransoms being paid
- Five multimillion-dollar drug busts in Westmoorings, Valsayn and Cunupia
- Cracked Human trafficking ring in Western Division
- Recaptured 14 escaped prisoners
Training
- Gender-based training
- Human trafficking
- New Forensic Science/Crime Scene Investigations Techniques
- Use of non-lethal weapons
- Customer service and public relations
Transformation
- Introduced polygraph and random drug testing for all officers
- Closed outstanding high-profile cases such as emailgate
- Issued more than 1,500 firearm user licenses
- Reduced overtime bill from $360m to $120m
- Restructures Organisational flow of TTPS
- Revamped the legal unit
- I Support Our Service (ISOS) and Converge
- Commissioner’s Cup Football Tournament
- Acquired over 100 non-lethal weapons
- Unveiled memorial stone
