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Ramjattan supports halted 2017 promotions of senior officer

May 11, 2018 News

-says Service Commission promoted ranks who tortured his former client

Minister of Public Security, Khemraj Ramjattan, has told the media that he supported the decision of President David Granger to halt the last set of promotions of senior Officers that the previous Police Service Commission was about to make months before its term ended.
Ramjattan made direct reference to the Commission’s decision to promote a police rank who in 2009 was accused of torturing a client of his at police station by burning his genitals. That teenager subsequently sued the state and was awarded judgment in excess of $6 million.
“When you look at what happened with the last Police Service Commission which promoted people who burnt the genitals of boys in police lock stations what do you think I will think, and especially when I was the lawyer for the little boy?”
The Security Minister at a Press Conference in his boardroom on Wednesday, said that there were several other allegations leveled against the members of that Police Service Commission. He however declined to get into what those allegations were when he was pressed by the media to elaborate. He said that he did not want to besmirch anyone’s character.
That Commission was headed by Chairman Omesh Satyanandand. Carvil Duncan, Lloyd Smith, Keith John and Harold Martin sat as Commissioners on the body.
It would have been the first time that Ramjattan was so concise in his position on the halting of the promotions which the court later ruled was unconstitutional after a motion was filed challenging the government’s decision.
There were several officers who were up for promotion but who had pending matters and even those who were the subject of Commission of Inquiry into the failure of the police to properly handle a report and investigation into an alleged plot to assassinate the Head of State.
Among those on the list were Assistant Commissioner of Police Clifton Hicken, and then Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum. Notably absent from the list was Assistant Commissioner of Police David Ramnarine who was senior to everyone else on the list at the time.
Ramjattan also accused to the Police Service Commission of failing to carry out its constitutional duties.
“You had to get that Police Service Commission changed and I think the President was totally correct in not promoting anybody there in respect to that kind of attitude. There were a number of other allegations and they were obviously not doing their constitutional duties”
The Parliamentary selection committee received four names of persons who are recommended to serve on the soon to be newly formed commission. The four names are all retired Assistant Commissioners of Police, among them Paul Slowe, Clinton Conway and Claire Jarvis.
Senior Police officers cannot be promoted or disciplined if the Service Commission is not in place. There are several matters, which were referred to the secretary of the body. The Service Commission when it gets into office is expected to deliberate on those matters.

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