Former Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) officer, Superintendent Krishnadat Ramana is the new Commander of Regional Division 4 C.
The position, according to Ramana, came into effect on August 10th. He takes over from Senior Superintendent Khali Pareshram.
It had been reported that Ramana was tipped to be the next Traffic Chief. When asked about this, Ramana directed Stabroek News to Clifton Hicken, the acting Commissioner of Police. Efforts to contact Hicken were unsuccessful.
Ramana had, in October 2022, instigated the wrongful arrest of attorney-at-law, Tamieka Clarke who had been representing a client at SOCU headquarters on Camp Road. This act attracted condemnation by members of the legal fraternity locally and internationally. Clarke had advised her client, who was at the time being investigated by the agency, not to answer questions asked of him by SOCU.