Cop rift

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN Commissioner of Police Darwin Dottin and the Police Services Commission (PSC) is at an all-time low.
They have met once in the last five years and only communicate by memo.
The latest incident is the PSC’s refusal to approve the appointment of Acting Deputy Commissioner Seymour Cumberbatch to act as commissioner while Dottin was on holiday. Consequently, Dottin was forced to return to work.
Dottin’s leave was originally approved from March 18 to April 19, but he returned to the job days after it began.  
The reason for the PSC’s action was its contention that Cumberbatch and Assistant Commissioner Oral Williams, whom Dottin selected to act as commissioner and deputy commissioner in his absence, were not suitable as neither was appointed deputy commissioner.