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Acting Deputy Commissioner of Police Deodat Dulalchan says there will be no further legal action against the Police Service Commission as he now intends to move forward and work with the incoming Commissioner of Police Gary Griffith.
Speaking to Guardian Media yesterday, Dulalchan welcomed Griffith’s appointment.
“Let me take the opportunity to congratulate him for getting the nod to be the Commissioner of Police,” he said, in a telephone interview.
Dulalchan was the top nominee to be submitted by the Police Service Commission for the post of Commissioner of Police but his nomination was rejected by the Parliament. The Prime Minister telling the House of Representatives his Government could not accept the nomination since Dulalchan had applied for the job of Deputy Commissioner of Police but emerged as the top candidate for the post of Commissioner in what he deemed a “flawed process.”
Yesterday, Dulalchan said, “now is a time you know not for emotions and so on, Gary Griffith has been appointed Commissioner of Police.”
Dulalchan said as a “lover of cricket I know what it is like to be on a team and the importance of supporting your captain, your leader. In this case, the Commissioner to be. I have always support Acting Commissioner Stephen Williams and other senior officers whom I have worked with.”
He said as someone who lives in Trinidad and Tobago his focus has always been and will continue to be getting a handle on the spiralling crime problem.
“The issue of crime for me remains on the front burner. I am wholly committed and I will give Mr Griffith my fullest support,” Dulalchan said.
Dulalchan extended his thanks to Williams for the time they worked together saying “I would publicly like to tell him ‘thank you’ not only to have known him but to have worked with him side by side.”
Several calls to Williams mobile phone went unanswered.
Communications Manager at the TTPS Ellen Lewis told Guardian Media, “I can state confidently that the TTPS is a professional organisation and therefore the rank and file will support the person that has been approved by the Lower House as the next Commissioner of Police.”
Efforts to contact Wayne Hayde, another candidate for the post of Commissioner, proved futile.