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  • 10 months ago
Former Chairman of the Police Service Commission Nizam Mohammed describes the arrest and subsequent release of the Police Commissioner Erla Christopher as unprofessional and clumsy.

He tells the Tv6 Morning Edition it is a national embarrassment.

Tv6's Nicole M Romany tells us more.
Transcript
00:00Mohammed, who is also a practicing attorney, a former Speaker of the House and a former
00:06Member of Parliament, says the manner in which the Commissioner was detained and interrogated
00:12by her subordinates for two days left the country in grave disquiet.
00:18Mrs Harewood-Christopher was arrested on Thursday in connection with the importation of two
00:24sniper rifles for the Strategic Services Agency.
00:28She was questioned at the St Clair Police Station.
00:58The Police Service Commission has since issued a statement on the nomination of an acting
01:19top cop.
01:21The Parliament has announced it will sit to discuss the nomination on Wednesday.
01:25However, Mohammed says what should have been done first is being done last.
01:31He believes the Parliament should have met before on this issue and the Commissioner
01:37should have been sent on administrative leave to address the situation before it became
01:42a public matter.
01:44Mohammed tells us it seems the cart went before the horse.
01:48The whole process of managing the Police Service, it is so complicated and the bureaucracy
01:58that is involved, the confusion that is involved, creates such a situation, those who are familiar
02:06with the operations of the Police Service Commission will not be surprised that something
02:11like this has taken place and on this occasion the victim is the Commissioner of Police of
02:17all people at a juncture in our history when she is actually managing a state of emergency.
02:29He warns that the country is in for a rough ride ahead, with not only the leadership woes
02:35within the TTPS, but the leadership transition in progress at the level of government.
02:41Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley is set to demit political office in the next few months and
02:47Energy Minister Stuart Young will succeed him.
02:50Mohammed believes there is going to be major bungling, according to him, left, right and
02:56centre, because the population holds the view that the Prime Minister designated is settling
03:02in to take charge while the Prime Minister has taken a back seat.
03:07I don't think it will be alarming for me to say that a perception is building up in the
03:14country now where we are feeling that we are leaderless, we are not seeing that cohesion
03:22at the upper level of the cabinet, where the core of the cabinet is holding together and
03:33seeing and leading us through this crisis situation that we are experiencing regarding
03:39the Police Service.
03:41The former chairman of the Police Service Commission is calling for urgent constitutional
03:45reformation at the Police Service Commission.
03:49Nicole M Romany, TV6 News.
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