T&T’S POLICE SOCIAL WELFARE HEAD ADDRESSES “SLANDER”OF OFFICERS

By a staff reporter: 

The Police Social and Welfare Association is calling for a stop to what was described as a vicious public smear campaign against hard-working career officers of the TTPS…this after a social media group established in support of former Police Commissioner Gary Griffith made allegations against an investigating officer in two cases involving high-ranking police officers.

Ie News spoke with Inspector Gideon Dickson, President of the PSSWA, he told us that several officers have been “slandered” by a body purporting itself as supporters of the former Commissioner.

He said the latest attempt was on Saturday, after an administrator on the page made a post suggesting that an investigating officer who operates at the Professional Standards Bureau, was put at the centre of two investigations – one involving head of the Special Operations Response Team and nominee for deputy commissioner of police, Mark Hernandez, and another involving head of the police legal unit Christian Chandler. The post on Saturday made a number of allegations about the investigator's conduct and familial ties. Now according to Mr Dickson, such allegations could further erode the trust and confidence that the public had in the police.