Acting Police Commissioner Curt Simon, is standing by his now viral comments, as it relates to the absorption of SRPs. Meantime President of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service Social and Welfare Association, ASP Ishamel Pitt, is also weighing in, and tells TV6 the Association is currently working with the Homeland Security Minister towards the amendment of the regulations. Rynessa Cutting reports.
00:00Nobody is owed anything. Nobody is owed anything. Even our Assemblantia Attorney Attorney Police Service is not owed the right to go into the TPS.
00:16As Kershaw is a police officer who went for 20 years and have 400 cases in court, is not owed the right to enter the TPS.
00:25This comment by ACP Kurt Simon led to a walkout by Special Reserve Police during a meeting with senior TPS members yesterday.
00:38However, ACP Simon is standing by the statement as he notes there are certain criteria to become a member of the TPS which cannot simply be satisfied or replaced by tenure.
00:49Persons will have to really sit down closely and ponder this because I am aware of persons who are trying to qualify themselves at higher levels of education.
01:00That's by doing degrees in criminal justice, criminology, different IT subjects and so on in a bid to get into the service to go in that direction that the service has been propagating itself to be heading.
01:13The police service is currently in the process of absorbing 800 SRPs in accordance with a cabinet note.
01:20However, tenure is not a consideration in the absorption which is a major source of contention for the SRPs.
01:27Then we might as well, we might as well abort the entire law that states how a person is supposed to become a police officer in the Trinidad and Tobago police service and just have a law that creates for perhaps absorption.
01:45And then that would mean that persons, citizens would lose their ability to apply to the police service.
01:54Meantime, President of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service, Social and Welfare Association, ASP Ishmael Pitt, says the association is in active talks with the Homeland Security Minister towards improving the terms and conditions for SRPs, of which there are just over 3,000.
02:14From an association perspective, we looked at things as length of service in terms of tenure.
02:23We looked at the performance appraisal in terms of the officer's performance on the job.
02:30We also looked at the area of medical in terms of the officer's sick leave and things like that.
02:38You know, those were the areas that we advanced in terms of having the absorption process.
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