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Leader of the Alliance For Change (AFC), Nigel Hughes on Friday said a retired officer whose tenure has been extended or on contract could not be appointed substantive police commissioner, even as government maintained that there was no legal humbug to appointing Mr Clifton Hicken as the substantive police commissioner. Mr Hughes, an experienced criminal and civil lawyer, said the ...

President Irfaan Ali said Tuesday night that nothing in Guyana’s Constitution or laws prohibit him from appointing Assistant Police Commissioner Clifton Hicken as substantive police commissioner although he has reached retirement age of 55 years. “There is no barrier legally or constitutionally from appointing him,” he told Demerara Waves Online News. Told that Mr Hicken has reached retirement age, Dr ...

President Irfaan Ali seemed set to appoint Assistant Police Commissioner, Clifton Hicken to the substantive position of police commissioner, effectively discarding concerns by Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton about his suitability for the top law enforcement position. Mr Norton told Dr Ali that there should be “continued dialogue on the search for a best-fitted person for the chair of Commissioner of ...

Assistant Police Commissioner, Clifton Hicken was Wednesday seconded to the Ministry of the Presidency’s Department of Citizenship, but he brushed off concerns that he has effectively been removed from the administration of the Guyana Police Force. Asked if he was given any reason for his secondment, Hicken said “that is nothing new. Police is [sic] always attached from time to ...