PORT-OF-SPAIN, TRINIDAD (CMC):
High Court judge Judith Jones has granted an injunction preventing the Police Commissioner and the Police Service Commission (PSC) from promoting more than 300 constables to a higher rank.
The judge in a special sitting of the court on Sunday night, granted the injunction when lawyers for a number of disgruntled police officers, argued that the new point based system used to promote the constables was illegal and ultra vires of the PSC regulations.
The judge heard oral submissions before granting two temporary injunctions restraining both the PSC and the Police Commissioner from handing out letters or documents to 302 constables "tending to purport or convey promotion to any officer in the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service to the rank of Corporal".
The matter will come up for hearing today.
