PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Feb 5, CMC – Parliament on Wednesday approved the notification of President Christine Kangaloo regarding the appointment of Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Junior Benjamin, to act as Commissioner of Police as the investigations continue into the allegation of misbehaviour in public office involving the Commissioner of Police, Erla Harewood-Christopher.
Parliament also gave the nod to ACP Curt Simon as an acting DCP.
Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley, who tabled both the motions for the appointments as a result of the notifications of the head of state, following the submissions made by the Police Service Commission (PSC), said he wanted to make it “pellucidly” clear that his administration had nothing to do with the situation confronting the police commissioner.
He read the contents of a letter sent to President Kangaloo by the PSC chairman Dr Wendell Wallace in which he wrote that Harewood-Christopher had been told to “cease to report for duty and cease to discharge the duties of Commissioner of Police”
In the January 31 letter the PSC chairman said that the action against Harewood-Christopher was being taken “as a result of an ongoing investigation into misbehaviour in public office”.
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