PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad -- Trinidad and Tobago Attorney General, Anand Ramlogan, has called on Police Commissioner Dwayne Gibbs immediately to investigate claims that senior police officers take bribes in exchange for awarding firearm users licences.
The Guardian newspaper reported that, in an interview, Ramlogan, who expressed concern about the allegations made by the president of the Police Service Social Welfare Association Anand Ramessar and secretary Michael Seales, said such claims raised the question, "Who will guard the guards?”
Attorney General Anand Ramlogan
Saying that his office was not authorised to probe the allegations, Ramlogan said, "I am extremely concerned about these serious allegations. It raises the age-old problems of ‘who will guard the guards?’ I am of the view that the issues raised should be investigated. This is not the first time such allegations have been made. Indeed, the office of the Attorney General frequently receives complaints from aggrieved persons who have applied for firearm users licences."
He added that many of the applicants did not "have the courtesy of a response" even though their applications were duly processed and recommended for the award of a licence.
They are reportedly delayed until a bribe is paid.
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