(Trinidad Guardian) Former commissioner of police Gary Griffith was the subject of debate in the House of Representatives yesterday, as Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley told the House that a former CoP had stormed out of a polygraph test saying that he did not like the questions. Rowley was speaking during a debate on the bill to establish a framework for polygraph testing. “Would you believe the said Commissioner of Police, as an applicant for the post of Commissioner of Police, being required to do the same thing he asked his officers to do .
.. flatly refused to be polygraphed, walk out of the test, disconnect himself and say he didn’t like the questions,” Rowley said.
The Prime Minister did not say who the former commissioner was. He said the former CoP had to be told that if he wanted to be considered as an applicant, he had to do the test. “Well, Madame Speaker, he so want the position, he come back and he hook up again.
The results are there for all to know,” he said. Speaking after Rowley, Oropouche East MP Dr Roodal Moonilal was the first to introduce Gary Griffith’s name as he referred to a social media post by Griffith. “The Prime Minister made reference to a former commissioner of police not wanting or not availing himself to undertaking a polygraph test as part of recruitment to the office of commissioner of police.
Now the Prime Minister did not name the applicant for commissioner of police but it led swiftly on social media to a comment by former com.
