Commissioner of Police Clifton Hicken has announced that there will be no year-end promotions this year for officers of the Guyana Police Force.
Hicken made this announcement during the Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne) annual awards ceremony on Thursday.
According to Hicken, the Force will not have any promotions because the slots have already been filled with recent promotions.
“Unfortunately, we’re not going to do any promotion for this year-end because our promotion that came out was the largest ever and so we’ve filled the slots,” Hicken explained.
Hicken also announced that some police officers will receive Christmas and Boxing Day off duty. In contrast, others will get Old Year and New Year’s Day off, to balance family time while still remaining committed to their roles and responsibilities as members of the Force.
Senior Superintendents of Police, Calvin Brutus, Errol Watts, Khali Pareshram and Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum are among eight senior police ranks who were promoted to Assistant Commissioners of Police, effective July 3, 2022.
Senior Superintendents of Police; Fizal Karimbaksh, Ravindradat Budhram, Kurleigh Simon and Mahendra Sewnarine complete the list of promotions to Assistant Commissioner.
In addition, a list of 11, including Regional Division Commander, Superintendent Dion Moore, Superintendent Khalid Mandall, Superintendent Boodnarine Persaud, and Superintendent Raphael Rose were promoted to Senior Superintendents.
Twenty-one officers were promoted to Superintendents of Police, 25 to Deputy Superintendents, while 42 were promoted to Assistant Superintendents of Police.
A list of 21 were promoted to Assistant Superintendents on Probation, four to Cadet officers, six to Chief Inspectors, while 97 were promoted to Inspectors of Police.
In the junior police promotions lists, 104, were promoted to Regular Sergeant, 109 to Corporal and 85 to Lance Corporal.
