Gary Griffith is a former commissioner of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service, having served a term in office for the period 18 August 2018 to 17 August 2021[1] Under the previous government, led by a coalition including the party currently in Opposition, he had been appointed as Minister of National Security in Trinidad and Tobago on Friday 6 September 2013.

1988–1990 In 1988 Gary Griffith enlisted into the Regiment and was immediately Commissioned by His Excellency the President Noor Hassanali to the rank of Second Lieutenant.

He was then appointed Administrative, Finance, Welfare and Logistics Officer for over 300 troops from the CARICOM Forces that participated in the United Nations Mission in Haiti.

At the end of a successful tour of duty, he then had the honour of being the first-ever military officer from this country to return home with a United Nations Peacekeeping Medal.

Mr. Griffith received his letter of appointment on Friday 3 August 2018, as the new commissioner from Ms. Bliss Seepersad, chairman of the Police Service Commission.

On 2 February 2015 the former Minister of National Security, Gary Griffith and former attorney general Anand Ramlogan were revoked of their appointment to office under request by former prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago Kamla Persad-Bissessar, along with the call for resignation from the former director of the Police Complaints Authority (PCA) David West following their roles in a witness-tampering investigation ordered by acting police commissioner Stephen Williams.

[6] The allegations started when former director of the Police Complaints Authority (PCA) David West, had signed a statement in which he claimed that the former attorney general Anand Ramlogan had asked the director of the PCA to withdraw a witness statement he had made in a defamation matter against the Opposition Leader at the time.

Shortly following, it was alleged that Gary Griffith, upon the advice of Anand Ramlogan, telephoned the director of the PCA to query whether or not he had withdrawn the witness statement in question.