THE Royal Bahamas Police Force (RBPF) has promoted 851 officers, according to an announcement from Commissioner of Police Ellison Greenslade yesterday as officers prepare to cast ballots in the general election’s advanced poll on Wednesday.
The promotions take effect January 1.
Two superintendents have been promoted to chief superintendents; 76 assistant superintendents have been made superintendents; 90 inspectors have been promoted to assistant superintendent
while 107 sergeants have risen to the rank of inspector.
Commissioner Greenslade also announced that 253 corporals have been promoted to sergeant while 323 constables have been promoted to the rank of corporal.
“You’ve waited for well over three years for your promotions, you’ve worked hard, you’ve sacrificed and you have demonstrated a level of commitment and certainly all of the attributes that certainly qualifies you for these promotions,” Commissioner Greenslade said in a video recording issued to the media last night.
He offered congratulations to the officers who were promoted.
This announcement came days after Prime Minister Perry Christie revealed the government will finally pay police officers for working 12-hour shifts in 2013 and 2014, with the first payment of the outstanding sum to be issued on May 29.
He said the second installment in overtime pay would come “in the next budget cycle,” but was not more specific. He said officers who have died or are retired will be paid in full.
Comments
shonkai 6 years, 12 months ago
So how many constables do we still have, more than 1? At leas they will not vote PLP.
ThisIsOurs 6 years, 11 months ago
Lol. I bet you he just pass out the police college on Friday. And he get assigned to the motorcycle unit. He happy too.
Alex_Charles 6 years, 12 months ago
they will fall for it hook line and sinker.
The_Oracle 6 years, 12 months ago
Shameless miscreants. Is there no lower ethical boundary they will not cross? Do not fall for it! It is all over due, and delayed by those who would now act like it is a gift!
DDK 6 years, 12 months ago
SHAMELESS DESPERADOS. We should not assume Bahamian police officers are fools. That would be a terrible thing. Tee-shirts, $100.00 bills, booze, food, phony hotel openings, delayed clinic openings, eve of election promotions....... That VAT sure goes a long way.
moncurcool 6 years, 12 months ago
Takes 3 years to give people the promotions they deserve on the eve of them going to the polls to vote? Really? This foolishness needs to stop. This the same think Chrisite criticize Ingraham with in 2012. Now he has moved it to a worst lever. Shame.
JohnDoes 6 years, 12 months ago
It amazes me that after approximately three years of complaints, right before they Vote, they get what they were asking for. Both the government & commissioner gave them every excuse as to why they will not receive O.T and talked about how there was not enough money to pay officers & promote them but all of a sudden since election is now in season, they get what they were asking for? O.T being paid on the 29th? Do the officers & PSA really believe that? A ploy & if the PLP does win, it would not surprise me at ALL if they give them another excuse on the '29th' as to why they still will not receive O.T/back pay. VAT % will of course without a doubt go UP, Up, Up and these politicians will never take pay cuts to facilitate this, the poor will just get poorer. Yet no raises for Teachers even mentioned?
sheeprunner12 6 years, 12 months ago
The PLP cannot get any more sleazy than this ......... Why would they promote 25% of the police force 2 days before they are scheduled to vote in a general election?????? .............. This is shameless and should be condemned by the international election observers ....... This is rank manipulation of the armed forces to influence their vote for the government (PLP)
Well_mudda_take_sic 6 years, 12 months ago
Five years from now Minnis and the FNM would be doing exactly the same thing....buying votes any way they could to leave the Bahamas as financially crippled as possible after the refilling of the public purse with another round of new taxes and borrowings that would be quickly pillaged and plundered through waste, fraud, corruption and outright theft. The aim is always to make it impossible for the next government to govern so that five years later the previous set of crooks are back for their turn again. And around and around we go.....sinking further down the proverbial toilet. Yes fellow Bahamians, this is the game that continues to be played in Bahamian politics today. It's a game with a select few very corrupt winners and with the vast majority of Bahamians as the big time losers. Everyone supporting the FNM today would be supporting another political party five years from now after Minnis, Symonette and D'Aguilar would have had their turn at that most bountiful trough....the public purse refilled yet again with even more government taxes, fees and borrowings.
Alex_Charles 6 years, 12 months ago
hang em all! Since they are so passionate about the death penalty, let em ALL HANG in Parliament Square
OMG 6 years, 11 months ago
The Bahamas is already financially crippled and whomsoever gets elected have two choices.1. Bite the bullet, reign in spending, cancel many unnecessary projects or at least tone them down ,reduce the size of the bloated civil service and set a budget that reduces the national debt with a complete stop on further borrowing. 2. Continue as we are , get downgraded and devalued dollar.
banker 6 years, 11 months ago
Really Duke, you have no basis to say that. Have you no regard for the truth?
licks2 6 years, 11 months ago
I MUST AGREE WITH YOU HERE. . .THE FNM WILL BE DOING THE SAME THING NEXT FIVE YEARS AROUND ELECTION TIME. . .BUT THE REST OF YA DRIBBLE. . .YOON MAKING NO SENSE AS USUAL!! Lol!
TigerB 6 years, 11 months ago
I like your point sheep runner, but also remember they promoted another 25% last promotion about 3 years ago, so now who will be on foot patrols, corporals and sergeants? the balance is so sickening its scary... I expect to see plenty transfers to family islands cause no way you can have a chief supt. and a supt as well as an ASP running the same station
sheeprunner12 6 years, 11 months ago
This country does not need >3000 police officers ......... 50 senior officers and 400 middle management officers ......... This is a financial drag on the country and it has become a political football for the PLP and FNM ...... With 2200 police officers in Nassau, why do we have the amount of crimes (excluding murder) in our neighborhoods????
John 6 years, 11 months ago
Ok so now that the picnics have received their long awaited (many are political) promotions and they have been promised their overtime pay (for work that was not successful in stemming the tide of crime or curbing murders) can y'all get to work and demonstrate to the Bahamians that your promotions and your overtime pay does have some value? Can you set a target to reduce murders by 50% by years end? And the other prolific (that's y'alls word) crimes are car thefts, car breaks-ins, and home and shop break-ins. Can you set a reasonable target and reduce these numbers as well. And to all the decent, dedicated, hardworking, sober and loyal policemen: you know you deserve your promotion and to toes eho deserve but didn't get don't lay it discourage. Put nothing in front of being a great officer.
OldFort2012 6 years, 11 months ago
How very Third World.
ThisIsOurs 6 years, 11 months ago
Third world indeed.
Sickened 6 years, 11 months ago
That's our African roots shining through. We will be a military dictatorship soon.
Damn, I shouldn't have used the Roots word... I don't want ZNS to play it again.
OMG 6 years, 11 months ago
I hope the Police Officers who understandably are happy and also deserve proper recognition realise that the timing of this is simply an election ploy and whatever small pay rise they get will be swallowed up by a further deterioration of the economy. Whichever party is elected should make some unpopular decisions but that of course will cause the fickle electorate to vote them out at the next election. Remember election promises worldwide are about politicians retaining their jobs and not for the long term economic benefit of the country.
ThisIsOurs 6 years, 11 months ago
They don't have the money to pay them. Should they win, watch for the new borrowing within days, should they not win....it's not their headache. This is the most selfish and self serving cabinet I have ever seen.
I had real faith in Halkitis guarding the Treasury, but I'm not able to ignore what's in front of my eyes any longer, you can't be in charge and not see something wrong with all these weird contracts. I bet the person who was just "caught" simply tried to do what they saw everyone else doing, award a contract to themselves/a friend and inflate it, they just did it poorly. Just like the accountant at Junkanoo Carnival, prosecuted for stealing 25,000, what a joke. 860,000 is a drop in the bucket to what walk out the door, look at BAMSI alone.
licks2 6 years, 11 months ago
I DID MY INQUIRIES WITH ONE LIL BIRD I KNOW WORKING THERE AND WAS TOLD THAT A 25 YEAR OLD FELLLA ROBBED THEM BLIND. . .ALMOST ONE MILLION DOLLARS! THEY REPORTED HIM TO POLICE. . .
TigerB 6 years, 11 months ago
It had happen again and again, every police officer in Urban renewal has been promoted. In the case of the constables and corporals they need an exam for elevation, but again all! So now lets see how the deployment will be. Many will not want to got to the family islands
justthefactsplease 6 years, 11 months ago
So now we have a force of a bunch of Chiefs and not enough Indians...how effective will that make them?
Clamshell 6 years, 11 months ago
I didn't know we had 851 police officers. If that's true, why is crime out of control?
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