A se­nior mu­nic­i­pal po­lice of­fi­cer has won his ap­peal over on­ly be­ing award­ed min­i­mal com­pen­sa­tion af­ter his pro­mo­tion was ter­mi­nat­ed over is­sues with the per­mis­sion he got to leave his pre­vi­ous role.

De­liv­er­ing a judg­ment this week, Ap­pel­late Judges Ge­of­frey Hen­der­son, Eleanor Don­ald­son-Hon­ey­well and Joan Charles up­held Glen Charles’ (no re­la­tion) ap­peal over the quan­tum of dam­ages he was award­ed.

Ac­cord­ing to the ev­i­dence, in 2017, Charles, a T&T Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Su­per­in­ten­dent as­signed to the Port-of-Spain City Cor­po­ra­tion, was of­fered the po­si­tion of Mu­nic­i­pal Se­nior Su­per­in­ten­dent with­in the Min­istry of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment for a term of three years.