Commissioner of Police Gary Griffith says don’t blame his officers for the murder of Tricia Ramsaran-Ramdass.

Commissioner Griffith says it is the criminal justice system to be blamed.

The Commissioner’s defense of the police service comes after the coalition against domestic violence was critical of the police inaction in the matter.

But the Commissioner says the suspect in the killing of Mrs. Ramsaran-Ramdass was out on a Bond to Keep the Peace for five years.

The 37-year-old Mrs. Ramsaran-Ramdass was strangled at the Barrackpore home of her lover last week.

The 51-year-old suspect was previously convicted for the unlawful killing of another woman 16 years ago.