Shane Su­perville

Po­lice Ser­vice Com­mis­sion (PolSC) chair­man Dr Wen­dell Wal­lace con­firmed on Tues­day that Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Er­la Hare­wood-Christo­pher had not yet re­ceived for­mal no­ti­fi­ca­tion lift­ing her sus­pen­sion, but the let­ter could be de­liv­ered by Wednes­day morn­ing.

Hare­wood-Christo­pher was sus­pend­ed af­ter her ar­rest on 30 Jan­u­ary, tied to the in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the il­le­gal trans­fer of a sniper ri­fle to the Strate­gic Ser­vices Agency (SSA). On Sat­ur­day, Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions Roger Gas­pard, SC, said there was enough to treat her as a sus­pect but not enough ev­i­dence to lay charges.

On Mon­day, re­ports in­di­cat­ed she may soon re­turn to du­ty.

Dr Wal­lace con­firmed the re­in­state­ment let­ter was pend­ing.

“We are hop­ing it be de­liv­ered some­time to­day or ear­ly to­mor­row (Wednes­day) morn­ing,” he said.

Wal­lace said once Hare­wood-Christo­pher’s sus­pen­sion is of­fi­cial­ly lift­ed, sep­a­rate let­ters would be is­sued to:

-Act­ing Com­mis­sion­er Ju­nior Ben­jamin, re­turn­ing to his sub­stan­tive post of Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (DCP)

-Act­ing DCP Op­er­a­tions Curt Si­mon, re­vert­ing to his sub­stan­tive rank of As­sis­tant Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (ACP)

Asked whether the tran­si­tions might face in­ter­nal chal­lenges, Wal­lace said the TTPS was equipped to man­age the process.

“It is a dis­ci­plined or­gan­i­sa­tion and what­ev­er has to take place, they will have to work that out in­ter­nal­ly,” he said.

“I can’t make pro­nounce­ments on what will or will not hap­pen, but I can say they are ex­pect­ed to act in ac­cor­dance with their rules, reg­u­la­tions and the hi­er­ar­chi­cal struc­ture.”