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Monday, July 14, 2025

Criminal Bar backs Guevarro as top cop

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Shane Superville
29 days ago
20250615
Incoming Police Comissioner Allister Guevarro

Incoming Police Comissioner Allister Guevarro

Head of the Crim­i­nal Bar As­so­ci­a­tion, Is­rael Khan, SC, says the group’s mem­ber­ship is large­ly un­fa­mil­iar with in­com­ing Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro, but still en­dors­es the vet­er­an of­fi­cer for the role.

Gue­var­ro’s nom­i­na­tion was unan­i­mous­ly ap­proved in the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives on Fri­day.

His name, along with that of ACP South-Cen­tral Wayne Mys­tar for the post of Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice, was sub­mit­ted by the Po­lice Ser­vice Com­mis­sion to Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo and then for­ward­ed to Par­lia­ment for de­bate.

Since news of Gue­var­ro’s nom­i­na­tion emerged on Wednes­day, some po­lice of­fi­cers and mem­bers of the pub­lic have ques­tioned his back­ground and ex­pe­ri­ence, not­ing he was not wide­ly known among the can­di­dates for the po­si­tion.

In a me­dia re­lease yes­ter­day, Khan said that while Gue­var­ro was not known to the as­so­ci­a­tion, Par­lia­ment’s unan­i­mous ap­proval was a strong en­dorse­ment.

“It is an in­di­ca­tion that his ap­point­ment as CoP is based on his mer­it, abil­i­ty and in­tegri­ty.

“The Crim­i­nal Bar As­so­ci­a­tion wish­es him every suc­cess in the per­for­mance is his oner­ous du­ty and we un­hesi­tat­ing­ly sup­port him in his quest to keep Trinidad and To­ba­go safe.”


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