A Spe­cial Re­serve Po­lice­woman is threat­en­ing le­gal ac­tion against the Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice for re­ject­ing her ap­pli­ca­tion to ex­tend her tenure.

Of­fi­cer Ly­dia Per­sad-Ho­sein, 60, sent a pre-ac­tion pro­to­col let­ter through her at­tor­ney Shas­tri Parsad & As­so­ciates, to the Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice ask­ing for rea­sons why her ap­pli­ca­tion was re­ject­ed and whether he will re­vis­it his de­ci­sion.

Per­sad-Ho­sein was first ap­point­ed to the SRP in March 1992, then she was of­fi­cial­ly ap­point­ed a con­sta­ble in the TTPS in 2001.

She of­fi­cial­ly re­tired in 2011 at the rank of sergeant and was again ap­point­ed to the SRP in April 2019. In June 2020 she moved to the South­ern Di­vi­sion Court and Process Branch, Le­gal De­part­ment Doc­u­ment Cen­tre.

The at­tor­ney stat­ed that last Oc­to­ber Ho­sein-Per­sad ap­plied for an ex­ten­sion of her tenure as an SRP of­fi­cer as she had oral­ly been in­formed that her tenure was due to ex­pire on De­cem­ber 31, 2020. Her ap­pli­ca­tion was sup­port­ed by the rec­om­men­da­tions of two se­nior su­per­in­ten­dents and an in­spec­tor. How­ev­er, the at­tor­ney said in Jan­u­ary Per­sad-Ho­sein was in­formed that her ap­pli­ca­tion had not been ap­proved, but no rea­sons were giv­en.

The at­tor­ney sub­mit­ted that Per­sad-Ho­sein was not giv­en the right to be heard on her ap­pli­ca­tion or any no­ti­fi­ca­tion of any ob­jec­tions to and or rea­son why her ap­pli­ca­tion should not be grant­ed. The at­tor­ney stat­ed that his client has a le­git­i­mate ex­pec­ta­tion of hav­ing her tenure ex­tend­ed in that she has been serv­ing as an SRP con­sta­ble for 19 months.