Watts can remain on job, train overseas because criminal charges were private -Brumell

Police Commissioner (ag) Leroy Brumell yesterday said that Superintendent of Police Errol Watts can remain on the job and be allowed to attend overseas training programmes since the criminal charges brought against him in relation to last year’s rubber bullet shooting of APNU protestors were filed privately and not by the police.

“[Those] were private criminal charges so he can still perform his full duties,” Brumell said in response to questions from his newspaper as to why he has not been interdicted from duty pending the outcome of the court case.

The controversial officer made the news again last week after