PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Authorities and Opposition Friday supported the nomination of performing senior Superintendent Allister Guevarro as the brand new Commissioner of Police, changing Erla Harewood-Christopher, whose tenure resulted in acrimonious circumstances, together with having fees of misbehavior in public workplace.
Harewood-Christopher had, on February 3, 2023, made historical past by turning into the primary feminine police commissioner within the Twin Island Republic. However final month, she was despatched on 66 days depart, 48 hours after she returned to her desk following the choice by Director of Public Prosecution Roger Gaspard SC that there was “no real looking prospect” of her being convicted for the offense of misbehavior in public workplace “or for every other offense.”
Harewood-Christopher’s tenure as the highest cop got here to an finish on Might 15 after two earlier extensions,
A press release from the Ministry of Homeland Safety mentioned that based mostly on recommendation from the Workplace of the Lawyer Basic, Junior Benjamin, who Parliament had appointed to behave as Police Commissioner on February 6 this 12 months, would “proceed till the Police Service Fee advises the Ministry of a change on this standing.
Benjamin was amongst those that had reportedly been screened for the substantive put up.
Beneath Trinidad and Tobago regulation, the Head of State forwards the nomination to Parliament after receiving it from the Police Service Fee (PSC).
Homeland Safety Minister Roger Alexander, a former senior police officer who had resigned forward of the April 28 basic election right here, piloted the measure in Parliament.
Guevara, 49, graduated from the police academy in 1996, has studied on the Worldwide Regulation Enforcement Academy in El Salvador, and holds an MBA. He was one among three individuals assigned to probe the nationwide safety side of the February 2022 nationwide blackout, which was later discovered to be an “act of God.”
