Last night on the news Commissioner of Police Allen Whylie brushed off our suggestion that a recent round of promotions for senior officers had created dissension in the ranks. He said no new promotions had gone through. Well, after - and even during the news - we got major blowback on this. Enough of our police friends called and texted to say the knew of recent promotions and that the newly promoted were already wearing their insignias to denote their new rank.
So, did the promotions go through or not? Today we asked CEO in the Ministry Gorge Lovell - who oversees all promotions. He explained:...
Ret. Col. George Lovell - C.E.O., Ministry of National Security
"There have been people who have been promoted last year for whom I know that the official documentations are slowly trickling in and so there might be some names where you might see some people who you may not have seen at a particular rank, who eventually turns up with a rank and then you say how about that person who have been promoted."
Jules Vasquez
"These persons are not new promotions?"
Ret. Col. George Lovell
"The new promotions: there was a list of names that were submitted to security services commission for consideration. For those ranks as I've said above the ranks of inspector. I haven't really seen any confirmation of those because it normally comes back to us in writing to say who are the people who have been promoted, based on the recommendations"
Jules Vasquez
"Persons like Sinquest who is now superintendent, Avila, who is now an ASP, Howell Gillet, who us now a superintendent - are those....?"
Ret. Col. George Lovell
"Those were some of the ones indeed; Howell Gillet us a superintendent, not as ASP. Sinquest also is a superintendent rank who were holding superintendent positions..."
Jules Vasquez
"But has not receive the rank?"
Ret. Col. George Lovell
"They are now wearing the rank. These were some of the things that I am talking about, not this recent recommendation for promotion, but promotions before where they are now getting in. As I said the letters are now trickling in from public service and some of them are retroactive in deed."
Jules Vasquez
"So these are not new promotions."
Ret. Col. George Lovell
"No these are not new promotions."
Jules Vasquez
"Will we have a deputy ComPol since Mr. Aragon has retired from policing?"
Ret. Col. George Lovell
"There is a recommendation I was told. I haven't seen the letter on my desk yet, but I understand that a person who have been earmarked as that person."
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