APNU member, Carol Joseph, a resident of Hopetown, Berbice, through her attorneys-at-law at Dexter Todd and Associates Law Firm has filed an action in court challenging the powers of the President of Guyana to extend the tenure of the acting commissioner of police beyond the age of retirement.
A release from Todd’s office yesterday said that Joseph contends that there is no legal basis on which the President of Guyana can extend the tenure of an acting Commissioner of Police, Clifton Hicken.
The application underscores that the person currently occupying the office of the Commissioner of Police is doing so in a temporary, acting capacity in accordance to Article 211 (2) of the Constitution of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana and not as a substantive Commissioner of Police.