The Police Commissioner hits back at detractors who say that law enforcement has no right investigating the Drugs Sou Sou.

In a press conference hosted on Tuesday, Commissioner Gary Griffith repeated the Prime Minister’s sentiment that the DSS poses a major threat to this country’s national security.

Mr. Griffith says while there may very well be no wrong doing in the so-called sou-sou scheme, police have the right to eliminate any suspicion through a thorough investigation.

Senior investigators of the Royal Barbados Police Force are assisting with the DSS investigation.

Weighing in on the rise of pyramid schemes, the Commissioner said it is designed to maliciously hurt those at the bottom. 

“The pyramid scheme is directly designed to benefit those at the top of the scheme. The people who are benefitting are those on social media speaking the most…but for you to get $10,000, it means other poorer people are going to lose out,” he said.

‘The pyramid scheme will collapse eventually and when it collapses these people will have benefitted. People who try to speak praises of a pyramid scheme it means you are ignorant…it shows greed, it shows stupidity. The police is preventing other families from having to suffer because of your greed,” Griffith stated.