PRISON CHIEF Lieutenant Colonel John Nurse is being sued by one of his officers who claims he was wrongfully stripped of a position he acted in for more than two years.
Trevor Browne, Acting Prison Officer I, is seeking a judicial review of the Superintendent of Prisons’ decision to stop him acting as Orderly Officer and/or Shift Leader.
The application, which was filed by attorney-at-law David Comissiong and names the Attorney General as a second defendant, also seeks an order to permit Browne to serve as Acting Orderly Officer and/or Shift Leader; an order for payment of salary owed for the time he worked as Acting Orderly Officer; and an order for damages for “losses and damage suffered as a result of having been wrongfully removed as acting Orderly Officer/Shift Leader and wrongfully placed to work under officers junior to him or lacking qualifications to serve as Acting Orderly Officer/Shift Leader ahead of him”.
Browne was appointed to the Prison Service in 1984, promoted to the post of Acting Prison Officer I in July 2005, and acted as Shift Leader and Orderly Officer from April 27, 2008, to November 2010, but said he was never paid the salary due for acting in that position.
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