Denial of promotion in the police force

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Denial of promotion in the police force

May 27, 2016 Letters

Dear Editor,

Please permit me to again make another clarion call for the injustice committed on members of the Guyana Police Force to be corrected. The last two police promotions saw very little consequential promotion although vacancies existed for such promotions to be made. Officers including the very seniors and cadets who by the next decade will be at the apex of management in the GPF were generally bunched into one date of appointment. The long tried and tested traditional system of making appointments retroactive to the dates the vacancies existed were apparently thrown through the window.
As a result hard working and honest policemen were unjustly denied money legally due to them and will suffer other loss including superannuation benefits. The Police Service Commission is presently interviewing police personnel in an effort to promote them in time for the force anniversary celebrations July, 2016. Judging from what is coming out of the PSC, it leaves one with the impression that there will be little or no consequential promotions this time around.
One very senior and influential member of the promotion apparatus was asked about consequential. He is reported to have said, “What the police want with consequential promotion; them work for it?” The Guyana Police Force is considered a disciplined organisation. The purpose of discipline is to promote desired behaviour, which may be done by rewarding ranks for acceptable behaviour and punishing them for inappropriate conduct.
It is a case of reward and punishment. The punishment may include warnings, loss of earnings, transfers, interdictions from duty, charge and placed before the courts, reduction in rank, denied promotions, loss of seniority and many more corrective actions. I have no issue with ranks being punished for unacceptable behaviour, but on the other hand deserving ranks must be rewarded for outstanding work done in keeping with the condition of serve. To deny the police officers of consequential promotions will certainly not motivate them to deliver a highest quality of service to the police, the communities they served and the country as a whole.
The time is not too late for The Guyana Police Force, The Police Service Commission, Ministry of Public Security, Ministry of State and all other stakeholders to be involved individually and or collectively to ensure that those outstanding policemen who were unjustly denied consequential promotions over the last few years be given their due reward and that we will see consequential at the upcoming promotion. Hammer the police whenever they transgress but please give them their just reward when due however infinitesimal it may be.
Clinton Conway
Assistant Commissioner of Police (retired)
Security Manager
Troy Resources Guyana Inc.

1 thoughts on “Denial of promotion in the police force”

Surujpaul Rampersaud May 27, 2016 at 3:31 pm

My friend spent his entire working life in the GPF and retired at the rank of inspector. We had a discussion on his retirement and NIS benefits and what he told me was bothersome. The salary of policemen is bumped up with allowances. However, NIS contributions are paid on salary and not allowances. Hence, many retired policemen paid lower contributions and received lower benefits from NIS. At the same time retirement benefits are also calculated based on salary excluding allowances.Policemen who retired from the GPF find themselves getting less retirement benefits than their counterparts in Teaching and the Public Service. This needs to be addressed and remedied.

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