He was commenting on the controversy over the video, which was shown on the TV6 show, Crime Watch, which has been roundly condemned. The host of the show, Ian Alleyne, has apologised for showing the video.
Gibbs said, "In fact, it is better to maintain the privacy of individuals involved in occurrences, to bring it to us in a more pragmatic fashion."
He said there are several other ways the evidence could have been revealed.
"Everybody's got a responsibility if there is violence against children to bring that forward. Now how that is brought forward, we don't have to breach any sort of legislation or laws to bring it out," Gibbs said.
"It could be brought forward in many ways from being covert, in other words, anonymous, it is a simple matter of phoning our Crime Stoppers line."
Gibbs did not deal with the claim by Alleyne that police had the video for three months and did nothing about it.
A suspect in the case surrendered to police on Wednesday. The suspect is 18 and lives at Laventille Road Extension. One person is already before the courts for the crime.
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