Acting Commissioner of Police Stephen Williams said he sees no reason for him to tender his resignation.
Williams was answering questions posed to him by members of the media during a press conference yesterday along with the Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi and the National Security Minister Edmund Dillon.
Asked whether he was satisfied with his own performance given the country’s current murder rate of 27 (as of yesterday), Williams said his performance was not based on murders alone.
“I will be the first person to walk if I am dissatisfied with the effort that I am putting in and the results that I’m getting. If murder was the only crime which occurs in T&T I would have resigned,” Williams said.
He added that if one look at the numbers of 2016 and 2015 one would recognise that those were the lowest serious crimes totals for the last 33 years.
“If you are to judge performance you would not judge it on one item. Shootings and woundings in 2016 went down and I have presented that information and the data to the media but it was not looked at by the media. You have to judge on the whole violence listing,” Williams said.
Outgoing US Ambassador John Estrada in an interview said that if he was in charge of the Police Service he would fire himself in the face of a spiralling crime problem.
With regards to Estrada’s statement, Williams said: “I did not hear what the US Ambassador said but he is a foreign diplomat and I will not comment.”
Estrada’s comments came days after Williams wrote to the head of the Eastern Division Snr Supt John Trim and head of the Inter-Agency Task Force Snr Supt Simbonath Rajkumar, former head of the Northern Division, outlining shortcomings in their divisions and giving them seven days to respond as to why he should not retire them early from the Police Service.