(Trinidad Express) Police Commissioner Dwayne Gibbs will get an opportunity next week to prove exactly why he is still the right man to be top cop, newly-appointed chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC), Prof Ramesh Deosaran, has said.
And if Gibbs does not satisfy the PSC he will face the axe, Deosaran said on Wednesday.
“There are very important matters concerning the Police Service as a whole, and as you know the Police Service Commission has as its primary responsibility the appointment, supervision, evaluation of the Police Commissioner and his deputy,” Deosaran said.
“I would want to do an assessment of the Commissioner’s work. For example, he is here for over six months and he has, or should have produced a report in the first six months of his service. I would like to make a serious assessment of his duties, his functions and what results have been accrued so far.”
Canadian Gibbs and his countryman, Deputy Police Commissioner Jack Ewatski, received their letters of appointment from former PSC chairman Nizam Mohammed on September 20 last year. Mohammed’s appointment was revoked on April 4, following statements he made of an ethnic imbalance in the Police Service.
Deosaran was sworn in as PSC chairman by acting President Timothy Hamel-Smith in a ceremony at Knowsley, Queen’s Park West, Port of Spain, yesterday.
Following the ceremony, Deosaran said, “The commission means business, I mean business, accountability, fairness and results and I want to make the public assured that the Police Service will be facing a new wave of accountability.”
Deosaran said he wants Gibbs to walk with “hard data” next week to show he (Gibbs) deserves to retain his position.
