The com­mis­sion has failed to ap­ply its mind to its over­rid­ing re­spon­si­bil­i­ties to the most im­por­tant stake­hold­er, which was the pub­lic, Rame­sar charged yes­ter­day. He said: "In a nice way the PSC has said it was not able to do its du­ty in re­la­tion to the as­sess­ment of the Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er and his deputies. "It is no ex­cuse for the PSC to speak of the new­ness of Mr Gibbs and Mr Ewats­ki to the coun­try, hav­ing re­gard to the cost in­curred in keep­ing them on board and the of­fices out of which they per­form."

Say­ing the com­mis­sion al­so ought to have ap­plied its mind to the per­for­mance of the of­fi­cers and to have its own sys­tems in place to mea­sure that per­for­mance, he said: "The PSC in every way has demon­strat­ed it­self not on­ly to be a tooth­less bull­dog but in­ca­pable of car­ry­ing out its leg­isla­tive man­date and would have failed to ad­dress its mind to some of the key con­cerns that were made pub­lic in 2010 to 2011."

Rame­sar cit­ed the fail­ure of the Po­lice Ser­vice 21st Cen­tu­ry project which was launched in the West­ern Di­vi­sion as one such area which should have been con­sid­ered by the com­mis­sion. He said: "There is al­so the is­sues of pur­chas­ing new uni­forms and the hir­ing prac­tices of the Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er with­out prop­er ap­pli­ca­tion." He said in many in­stances Gibbs failed to take re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for his ac­tions.