BPA head: Cops leaving for higher pay, better terms

Police officers want the Mia Mottley administration to let them retire at 55, warning that rising gun risks and younger, more brazen criminals make plans to keep them on the streets into their late 60s untenable, Barbados TODAY can reveal.

The Police Association’s president, acting Assistant Superintendent Wendley Carter, said on Tuesday that the current pensionable age of 67 – which the government plans to raise in the coming years – was no longer fit for purpose for officers confronting a new type of criminal on the streets of Barbados.

He said: “Imagine a 68-year-old officer fighting with a 20-year-old boy. There is only one way that is going to go.