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July 5, 2021

Nigel Hoppie, D.S.M.

Commissioner of Police (ag)

Guyana Police Force (GPF)

Police Headquarters

Eve Leary,

Georgetown, Guyana

Dear Commissioner (ag) Hoppie,

Guyana Police Force Official Promotions List, transmitted June 28,2021

The Police Service Commission sent you a list on June 28, 2021, of ranks of the Guyana Police Force who were promoted. Your office acknowledged receiving the promotion list on June 30, 2021.

As you are aware, you are required to cause a Special Promotion Order to be prepared so that the promoted ranks and other members of the Force can be informed of the promotions. The

Quartermaster also uses the Special Promotion Order to issue badges of rank to the newly promoted ranks.

The lawyer to the Police Service Commission, Mr. Selwyn Pieters, copied you on a letter, which was sent to President Mohamed Irfaan Ali informing him that his purported suspension of the Police Service Commission was unconstitutional and of no legal effect. He also informed the President that the Police Service Commission will continue to do its work until the end of its term in August, 2021.

Your action in not ensuring that the Special Promotion Order is prepared and published one week after receiving the promotion list from the Police Service Commission is interpreted by the Police Commission as you defying the legitimate action of the Police Service Commission in promoting ranks of the Guyana Police Force.

This letter is to inform you that the Police Service Commission expects you to cause the Special

Promotions Order to be published forthwith, and that you give instructions to the Quartermaster to issue the newly promoted ranks with their badges of rank.

The Police Service Commission would also like to remind you that as the most senior rank in the Guyana Police Force you are expected lead by example and to carry out all legal instruction/directives and to disregard unlawful instructions/directives. This principle is considered one of the hallmarks of good leadership.

Should you further delay to give effect to the promotions the Police Service Commission will be forced to take legal steps to command you to carry out your duties in relation to the promotions.

We look forward to your response, and in any event, by no later thank 12:00 p.m. on July 06, 2021.

Please govern yourself accordingly.

cc Commissioners

Secretary, Police Service Commission

Legal Officer, Public/Police Service Commission

Selwyn Pieters, External Counsel to the Chairman and Commissioners

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Slowe issues ultimatum to Hoppie over promotions

Nigel Hoppie

July 5, 2021

https://www.stabroeknews.com/2...pie-over-promotions/

The Chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC), Paul Slowe today issued an ultimatum to Commissioner of Police Nigel Hoppie to give effect to police promotions announced by the PSC or to face legal steps.

Slowe gave Hoppie up to midday tomorrow to effect the promotions.

President Irfaan Ali had purported to suspend Slowe and other members of the PSC but Slowe and his attorney have said the President acted unconstitutionally and that the list of promotions presented to Hoppie on June 28 must be acted upon.

The text of the letter to Hoppie follows:

The Police Service Commission sent you a list on June 28, 2021, of ranks of the Guyana Police Force who were promoted. Your office acknowledged receiving the promotion list on June 30, 2021.

As you are aware, you are required to cause a Special Promotion Order to be prepared so that the promoted ranks and other members of the Force can be informed of the promotions. The Quartermaster also uses the Special Promotion Order to issue badges of rank to the newly promoted ranks.

This letter is to inform you that the Police Service Commission expects you to cause the Special Promotions Order to be published forthwith, and that you give instructions to the Quartermaster to issue the newly promoted ranks with their badges of rank.

Should you further delay to give effect to the promotions the Police Service Commission will be forced to take legal steps to command you to carry out your duties in relation to the promotions.

We look forward to your response, and in any event, by no later than 12:00 p.m. on July 06, 2021.

Please govern yourself accordingly.

Yours truly,

Chairman

cc Commissioners

Secretary, Police Service Commission

7/5/212:41 PM

PrashadSenior Member

Sorry man but I think Paul may have gotten dismissed.

7/5/214:12 PM

DjangoAdmin

@Prashad posted:
Sorry man but I think Paul may have gotten dismissed.

Is it LEGAL ?

7/5/214:14 PM

PrashadSenior Member

The man is the President. Paul should run for President now that he is unemployed. He should start his campaign now with the AFC.

7/5/214:16 PM

DjangoAdmin

@Prashad posted:
The man is the President.
Paul should run for President now that he is unemployed. He should start his campaign now with the AFC.

There are procedures to remove members of the Police Service Commission ,unfortunately stepped out side of his authority to remove the members. Where are the cries of Dictatorship ?

7/5/214:42 PM

PrashadSenior Member

Django you can tell this to Burnham, Janet Jagan or Hoyte. They will show you to the door. Actually Janet Jagan and Hoyte would have run you out

7/5/214:52 PM

DjangoAdmin

@Prashad posted:
Django you can tell this to Burnham, Janet Jagan or Hoyte. They will show you to the door. Actually Janet Jagan and Hoyte would have run you out

They are dead ,no relevance currently.

7/5/215:29 PM

Former Member

@Prashad posted:
Sorry man but I think Paul may have gotten dismissed.

@Django posted:
Is it LEGAL ?

Interesting times ahead.

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Guyana Constitution

Source - https://pdba.georgetown.edu/Co...Guyana/guyana96.html

TITLE 9
MISCELLANEOUS

224.		Where under this Constitution any provision may be made by rules of court, rules for the purpose may be made by the authority for the time being empowered generally, by law in force in Guyana, to make rules of court in relation to civil proceedings in the High Court or, in so far as the provision relates to the bringing of any appeal to, or the institution of other proceedings in, or the practice and procedure of, the Court of Appeal, by the authority so empowered in relation to civil proceedings in that Court.
225.	(1)	Where it is provided in this Constitution that this article shall apply to any office, a person holding such office (in this article referred to as "the office") shall not be removed therefrom or suspended from the exercise of the functions thereof except in accordance with the provisions of this article; and the prescribed authority for the purpose of paragraph (4) or (6) shall, in relation to any office, be the authority prescribed for that purpose by the provision of this Constitution by which this article is applied to that office.
	(2)	The officer may be removed from office only for inability to discharge the functions of his office (whether arising from infirmity of body or mind of any other cause whatsoever) or for misbehaviour.
	(3)	The officer shall be removed from office by the President if the question of his removal from office has been referred to a tribunal appointed under this article and the tribunal has recommended to the President that the officer ought to be removed from office for inability as aforesaid or for misbehaviour.
	(4)	If the prescribed authority advises the President that the question of removing the officer from office under this article ought to be investigated then ––
		(a)	the President shall appoint a tribunal which shall consist of a Chairman and not less than two other members, selected by the President after consultation with the Judicial Service Commission from among persons who hold or have held office as a judge of a court having unlimited jurisdiction in civil and criminal matters in some part of the Commonwealth or a court having jurisdiction in civil and criminal matters in some part of the Commonwealth or a court having jurisdiction in appeals from any such court or who are qualified to be admitted to practise in Guyana as attorneys-at-law and have been so qualified for such period as is prescribed by Parliament for the purposes of subparagraph (b) or article 129 (1) in relation to the office of Puisne Judge; and
		(b)	that tribunal shall enquire into the matter and report on the facts thereof to the President and recommend to him whether the officer ought to be removed to him whether the officer ought to be removed under this article.
	(5)	The provisions of the Commissions of Inquiry Act as in force immediately before the commencement of this Constitution shall, subject to the provisions of this article and article 197 (9), apply as nearly as may be in relation to tribunals appointed under this article, or, as the context may require, to the members thereof as they apply in relation to Commissions or Commissioners appointed under that Act, and in such application shall have effect as if they formed part of this Constitution.
	(6)	If the question of removing the officer from office has been referred to a tribunal under this article, the President, acting in accordance with the advice of the prescribed authority, may suspend the officer from performing the functions of his office, and any such suspension may at any time be revoked by the President, acting in accordance with such advice as aforesaid, and shall in any case cease to have effect if the tribunal recommends to the President that the officer should not be removed from office.

7/5/216:39 PM

Former Member

Paul Slowe remains suspended with no power to instruct Top Cop – Nandlall

By Editor On Jul 6, 2021 Last updated Jul 6, 2021, Source - Newsroom - https://newsroom.gy/2021/07/06...ct-top-cop-nandlall/

The Chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC), Paul Slowe remains on suspension as directed by President Irfaan Ali and therefore has no powers to instruct the Police Commissioner, Attorney General Anil Nandlall said on Tuesday.

Slowe has sought to compel the Police Commissioner to make promotions as recommended by the PSC.

Police Commissioner (ag), Nigel Hoppie on Tuesday declined to comment on Slowe’s missive to him to prepare and issue a Special Promotion Order which would give effect to a purported 2020 promotion list.

Slowe has threatened that should Hoppie not issue the Special Promotion Order by noon on Tuesday, legal proceedings would be initiated against him.

Slowe believes it amounts to a defying of the Commission’s orders even as he continues to reject his suspension as unlawful.

But according to Nandlall, Slowe’s request is null, void, and of no effect.

Nandlall, in brief comments via telephone, reminded that Slowe and the entire PSC were suspended by President Irfaan Ali.

“That decision stands until and unless it is withdrawn or revoked,” the Attorney General explained.

Nandlall said, “So whatever request Slowe has made… he has no authority to instruct the Police Commissioner.”

The 2020 promotion list was released by the Commission on June 28, 2021 moments after Chief Justice (ag) Roxane George threw out a challenge to the list by other senior police officers.

That ruling and the issuance of the promotion list came just 10 days after President Irfaan Ali suspended the entire Commission on June 17, 2021.

The News Room reached out to the lawyer representing the Police Service Commission, Selwyn Pieters, for more clarity on the legal action to be taken.

There was no immediate response from Mr. Pieters.

While the Police Commissioner had initially acknowledged the promotion list on June 30, 2021, no one has said whether he has responded to Slowe’s latest letter.

Up to noon on Tuesday the issuance of the Special Promotion Order seemed unlikely.

7/6/211:44 PM

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