TTPS loses appeal over scrapped ASP promotion process

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) has failed in its ap­peal chal­leng­ing a judge’s de­ci­sion to scrap the pro­mo­tion process for po­lice in­spec­tors seek­ing el­e­va­tion to the rank of as­sis­tant su­per­in­ten­dent of po­lice (ASP).

De­liv­er­ing a judg­ment yes­ter­day, Ap­pel­late Judges Prakash Moo­sai, Mi­ra Dean-Ar­mor­er and Eleanor Don­ald­son-Hon­ey­well re­ject­ed a chal­lenge to Jus­tice Frank Seep­er­sad, up­hold­ing a law­suit from In­spec­tor Mark Her­nan­dez in Feb­ru­ary last year.

In re­ject­ing all the grounds of ap­peal raised by the Of­fice of the Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er, the ap­peal pan­el found that it could not fault Jus­tice Seep­er­sad’s rea­son­ing.