Members of the executive of the Police Service on Sunday called for the resignation of Police Service Commission (PSC) chairman Nizam Mohammed for comments he made Friday about the ethnic imbalance in the police service.
ACP Fitzroy Fredericks told reporters people of East Indian ethnicity were not interested in joining to service in the early days, adding that even locals were not interested being police officers and labour had to be sourced from other Caribbean countries.
"Our East Indian brothers and sisters were not seeking to join the Police Service. If you look at other professions, they would have gravitated to other professions...most of our East Indian brothers were in the rural areas, they went to commerce, they went to business and agriculture," he said.
"But as we became more organised, the Police Service has been found to be a career and a decent place for decent employment, we have found. If you look at the composition, it reflects the ethnic composition of T&T," he said.
Fredericks said it is his view that Mohammed's statements were divisive and suggested that the President should fire Mohammed .
He also called on members of the police executive "to rally around the call", adding that Mohammed is not really "serving our best interest".
ACP Fitzroy Fredericks told reporters people of East Indian ethnicity were not interested in joining to service in the early days, adding that even locals were not interested being police officers and labour had to be sourced from other Caribbean countries.
"Our East Indian brothers and sisters were not seeking to join the Police Service. If you look at other professions, they would have gravitated to other professions...most of our East Indian brothers were in the rural areas, they went to commerce, they went to business and agriculture," he said.
"But as we became more organised, the Police Service has been found to be a career and a decent place for decent employment, we have found. If you look at the composition, it reflects the ethnic composition of T&T," he said.
Fredericks said it is his view that Mohammed's statements were divisive and suggested that the President should fire Mohammed .
He also called on members of the police executive "to rally around the call", adding that Mohammed is not really "serving our best interest".
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