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  • 1 year ago
The matter involving the wrongful promotion of 29 police officers is before the court. An electronic glitch resulted in 34 officers deserving of promotions being bypassed. National security minister Fitzgerald Hinds tells the upper house, one of the issues was easier to address than the other.


He described the issue or reversing the promotion to be complex as it is before the court.
Transcript
00:00If you give or grant a benefit to someone, it cannot be taken away whimsically.
00:08The principles of natural justice, embodied in the law of judicial review, becomes very relevant.
00:17In fact, there are also legal proceedings before the courts in respect of the matter raised in this question.
00:28The issue is therefore sub judice.
00:31With respect to the 34 police officers who were not promoted as a result of the same glitch, this matter was easier to resolve.
00:43They were denied a benefit to which they were lawfully entitled.
00:48As such, these officers have since been promoted and have received all of the entitlements and benefits due and owing to them.
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