Bridgetown.
Justice Dr Sonia Richards has stopped the Police Service Commission (PSC) from interviewing persons to fill the post of Deputy Commissioner of Police. On June 19, a day after Commissioner of Police Darwin Dottin was sent on leave by the PSC.
Acting Deputy Commissioner of Police Seymour Cumberbatch filed an injunction in the High Court against the Attorney General and the PSC urging the suspension of a process aimed at filling the vacancy of the number two post in the Royal Barbados Police Force.
“We consider that the action over the last 24 hours is a viciously cynical interference with that process for selection of the Deputy Commissioner of Police,” Cumberbatch’s attorney Ralph Thorne, QC told the media after the injunction was filed
“We also consider that the process has been so traumatized by the removal of the Commissioner of Police that it has caused a fracture that deprives Mr Cumberbatch of his right to enjoy a process that is consistent, transparent, objective, fair and impartial, and until the necessary procedural propriety revisits the process for selection, then it must not be allowed to continue", Thorne added.
So far the PSC the PSC has interviewed seven police officers to fill the post of Deputy Commissioner of Police.
Justice Richards ordered the process be stopped and adjourned the matter for a full hearing at a later date.
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