For­mer deputy chair­man of the Po­lice Ser­vice Com­mis­sion (PSC), Mar­tin George has de­scribed the de­lay in con­firm­ing the lift­ing of Com­mis­sion­er Er­la Hare­wood-Christo­pher's sus­pen­sion as a “scan­dalous out­rage,” urg­ing im­me­di­ate ac­tion to re­store pub­lic con­fi­dence in the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS).

The crit­i­cism fol­lows re­ports that, al­though the sus­pen­sion has ef­fec­tive­ly end­ed, the PSC has yet to is­sue the for­mal let­ter to Com­mis­sion­er Hare­wood-Christo­pher al­low­ing her to re­sume du­ties. The for­mer PSC of­fi­cial, who al­so chaired the body’s ap­peals tri­bunal, called this in­ac­tion a “dere­lic­tion of du­ty.”

“If you would have had sight or knowl­edge of the re­lease from the DPP and based up­on your own in­ter­nal in­ves­ti­ga­tions and if you have no rea­son for con­tin­u­ing the sus­pen­sion from du­ty, then... such a let­ter would nor­mal­ly be is­sued im­me­di­ate­ly,” he stat­ed.