Rad­hi­ca Sookraj

De­spite threat­en­ing to file an in­junc­tion against Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Dwayne Gibbs, the Po­lice So­cial and Wel­fare As­so­ci­a­tion has failed to make any le­gal moves to halt the 21st-cen­tu­ry polic­ing project. In a brief in­ter­view yes­ter­day, sec­re­tary of the as­so­ci­a­tion Sgt Michael Seales ad­mit­ted that no in­junc­tion had been filed.

"I can't say any­thing about that as yet...It must be a sur­prise," he added. The as­so­ci­a­tion served Gibbs with a pre-ac­tion pro­to­col let­ter on March 20 and gave him two weeks to re­spond. Gibbs did not do so. The let­ter ac­cused Gibbs of in­tro­duc­ing work­ing arrange­ments un­der the 21st-cen­tu­ry ini­tia­tive that were in­con­sis­tent with po­lice ser­vice reg­u­la­tions and agree­ments.

It claimed that be­cause of Gibbs' "un­for­tu­nate" ac­tions, po­lice of­fi­cers' psy­cho­log­i­cal, phys­i­cal and pri­vate lives were be­ing ad­verse­ly af­fect­ed. The in­junc­tion was draft­ed by Seales and pres­i­dent of the as­so­ci­a­tion, Sgt Anand Rame­sar, who are both lawyers.