Five assistant police commissioners over retirement age

Clement Rohee

Five of the current Assistant Commissioners of Police are above the retirement age but have been retained on contract because they have skills the police force needs, Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee told the National Assembly on Thursday.

Responding to a question from APNU MP Winston Felix during the Consideration of Estimates for the Home Affairs Ministry, Rohee told the House that out of seven contract workers for the force, five are Assistant Commissioners and another is a bandmaster. He later indicated that all of the Assistant Commissioners on contract had already reached the retirement age of 55.

Substantive Police Commissioner Henry Greene is also over the retirement age, but his tenure has been