PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, May 12, CMC – A High Court judge Monday said that the decision by the Police Service Commission (PSC) to suspend Commissioner of Police, Erla Harewood-Christopher, was lawful, reasonable, and proportionate.
In dismissing the legal challenge to suspend her, Justice Christopher Sieuchand found that the PSC acted within its authority when it suspended Harewood-Christopher on January 31 this year amid a police investigation into the procurement of two sniper rifles for the Strategic Services Agency (SSA).
Harewood-Christopher, whose tenure as top cop comes to and end of May 15, after two previous extensions, had contested the legality of the suspension, but the High Court upheld the PSC’s decision, finding it neither irrational nor illegal.
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