{"id":55661,"date":"2023-05-15T12:58:51","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T16:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=55661"},"modified":"2023-05-15T12:58:51","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T16:58:51","slug":"former-commissioner-rubbishes-top-cops-gun-stats-not-so-fast-erla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=55661","title":{"rendered":"Former commissioner rubbishes top cop&#8217;s gun stats: Not so fast, Erla"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Clint Chan Tack<br \/>\nMay 15, 2023 &#8211; <A HREF=\"https:\/\/newsday.co.tt\/2023\/05\/15\/former-commissioner-rubbishes-top-cops-gun-stats-not-so-fast-erla\/\">Newsday<\/A><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/\"><img src='http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blogimg\/Erla_Harewood-Christopher.jpg' width='150' height='113' border='0' class='alignleft' alt='Erla Harewood-Christopher' \/><\/a>FORMER commissioner of police (CoP) Gary Griffith on Sunday slammed CoP Erla Harewood-Christopher for her claim that 100 legal guns have been used in crimes.<\/p>\n<p>Harewood-Christopher made the claim in a sworn statement filed in the High Court two weeks ago, in response to a lawsuit of gun dealer Towfeek Ali who is seeking permission to import ammunition.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nShe raised serious national security concerns and the stability of the country over such imports, the poor accounting records of guns and ammunition imported, the possession of &#8220;military-grade&#8221; guns and 5.56 and 7.62 ammunition in the hands of civilians which can pierce wood, concrete, metal and body armour worn by police.<br \/>\n<i><A HREF=\"https:\/\/newsday.co.tt\/2023\/05\/15\/former-commissioner-rubbishes-top-cops-gun-stats-not-so-fast-erla\/\">Full Article : newsday.co.tt<\/A><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Clint Chan Tack May 15, 2023 &#8211; Newsday FORMER commissioner of police (CoP) Gary Griffith on Sunday slammed CoP Erla Harewood-Christopher for her claim that 100 legal guns have been used in crimes. Harewood-Christopher made the claim in a sworn statement filed in the High Court two weeks ago, in response to a lawsuit &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=55661\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Former commissioner rubbishes top cop&#8217;s gun stats: Not so fast, Erla<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,186,178,180,7],"tags":[44,1702],"class_list":["post-55661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-tt","category-law","category-media","category-police","category-politics","tag-crime-in-tt","tag-erla-harewood-christopher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55662,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55661\/revisions\/55662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}