LESS THAN 24 hours after the removal of Commissioner of Police (COP) Darwin Dottin, the acting Deputy COP Seymour Cumberbatch is asking the High Court for an injunction to halt any attempt to fill the post of Deputy Commissioner.
In documents filed in the High Court yesterday against the Attorney General and the Police Service Commission (PSC), Cumberbatch is urging the suspension of a process aimed at filling the vacancy of the number two post in the Royal Barbados Police Force.
“We consider that the action over the last 24 hours is a viciously cynical interference with that process for selection of the Deputy Commissioner of Police,” Cumberbatch’s attorney Ralph Thorne, QC told the MIDWEEK NATION yesterday.
“We also consider that the process has been so traumatized by the removal of the Commissioner of Police that it has caused a fracture that deprives Mr Cumberbatch of his right to enjoy a process that is consistent, transparent, objective, fair and impartial, and until the necessary procedural propriety revisits the process for selection, then it must not be allowed to continue.”
