Silence over Karimbaksh as Watts target ranks and commanders for tint
November 27 2025
Deputy Commissioner of Police Errol Watts has chastised police regional commanders and officers working at the Traffic Headquarters in Georgetown for having tint on the front screen of the motor vehicles they use.
Watts called for police officers to engage in introspection, which will rebuild “An ounce of public trust.”
“We need to deal aggressively with these traffic ranks countrywide first and then the other ranks who are causing the public to drift further away from us by these ranks feeling they have immunity by violating the traffic laws and regulations in several ways.” The circular disseminated on behalf of Watts stated.
DC Watts circular was communicated to the respective Divisional Traffic Officers through the Traffic headquarters hours before Minister of Home Oneidge Walrond announced that all tint
The Deputy Commissioner also frowned on ranks who do not comply with the tint regulation and who park their tinted motor vehicles next to them as they conduct enforcement exercises, which causes the public to take photographs of the said vehicles and post them on social media.
Also of concern for the senior officer is police officers consuming alcoholic beverages in public with friends and then conducting DUI enforcement.
“We cannot cherry-pick and hope that we will win the public trust and confidence. We must set the right examples and lead by doing so”. “We cannot bully people in a modern and open society. Might as well we lead by setting the correct examples to our young and upcoming citizens and visitors,” Errol Watts’ message stated.
However, it should be noted that while Watts preached to the officers and Commanders, he has reportedly completely ignored or made no public or circular mention of the two force-issued vehicles assigned by his colleague in rank, Deputy Commissioner of Police Fizal Karimbaksh, who drives around vehicles PWW 5443 and PAD 4448 which have obscured registration plates and a tinted front windscreen. In fact, everyone remains silent about this glaring double standard by Deputy Commissioner and head of SOCU, Fizal Karimbaksh, while enforcement campaigns for the same offences are being waged against the public and officers below the rank of Deputy Commissioners of Police.
“Let us clean traffic headquarters of all officers, inspectors, subordinate officers, and other ranks whose vehicles, personal, and borrowed that are heavily tinted. Let us ensure our police traffic cars and other vehicles, especially our patrol vehicles be in conformity with all aspects of the laws as it relates to the tint regulations. Too many police commanders’ vehicles and other police vehicles have tints even on their front windscreens in violations of all aspects of the tint regulations. We cannot cherry-pick the enforcement of our traffic laws and hope to make a very big difference”
It is expected that with the directive from both Deputy Commissioner Watts and Minister of Home Affairs Oneidge Walrond, the public can expect mass campaigns to have all civilian vehicles without the requisite tint permit fall in line.
