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Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Debating the Police Service Commission

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In a re­sponse pub­lished in to­day's Guardian, the Po­lice Ser­vice Com­mis­sion (PSC) takes is­sue with last Sat­ur­day's ed­i­to­r­i­al, which was crit­i­cal of its han­dling of the ap­point­ment of a sub­stan­tive Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice and Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice. The com­mis­sion sug­gests that it is not to blame in­so­far as its fail­ure to make sub­stan­tive ap­point­ments to these po­si­tions is con­cerned.

The com­mis­sion took is­sue with the word­ing that stat­ed that the Po­lice Ser­vice Com­mis­sion "can­not con­tin­ue to hide be­hind Le­gal No­tice 102, which ac­cord­ing to its chair­man Prof Ramesh De­osaran, "re­quires the di­rec­tor of per­son­nel ad­min­is­tra­tion to ad­ver­tise for a firm."It is sur­pris­ing that the com­mis­sion would think that the Guardian was propos­ing that Prof De­osaran and the PSC should break the law by seek­ing to cir­cum­vent the le­gal no­tice. That was not what was be­ing pro­posed.

Rather, the sug­ges­tion was that they were hid­ing be­hind Le­gal No­tice 102 of 2009 be­cause the com­mis­sion was not pre­pared to use the very same bul­ly pul­pit that Prof De­osaran had used, up­on tak­ing his oath of of­fice, to judge for­mer com­mis­sion­er Gibbs in April 2011 and ap­ply the same pub­lic judg­ment to the im­ped­i­ment that stands in the way of chang­ing the sys­tem.

http://www.guardian.co.tt/dig­i­tal/new-mem­bers


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