Dull and Bright Faces as police promotions announce

L-R Assistant Commissioners of Police Fraser and Kingston, Senior Superintendents of Police Kendall and Herbert

February 26, 2025

The Guyana Police Force opened its Police Officers Conference on the day the Police Force Corporate Communications Unit released a senior police promotion list with an attached junior list. The Police Service Commission approved the promotion of more than one hundred and Forty senior officers and Inspectors.

Many bright faces walked into the Police Conference as word got out that today would mark the day that brings an end to the long-awaited police promotions, a wait which for some, dates back to as long as ten years but as with everything under the sun, there were disappointments.

Persons who expected promotions were overlooked completely, some whose names were on an initial promotion list were removed and well, there were just those who were totally unlucky altogether. For some, luck and favor were on their side.

One such person is Inspector Lingard Walcott who conveniently and under pressure, change changed a statement he had originally submitted in the Calvin Brutus Investigation and replaced that statement with one that suggested that several actions taken by then Assistant Commissioner of Police Calvin Brutus were done outside of the normal scheme of the procedures to handle goods delivery and payments. Walcott also in that revised statement claimed not to know a company to which monies were paid for goods delivered. Soon after, evidence surfaced that the goods were delivered to the force and Walcott’s signature was also on the documents. Walcott remained grounded on his apparent false statement and the rest is history… he is now an Assistant Superintendent of Police.

Notable promotions on the list are those of Senior Superintendents Michael Kingston,  Mahendra Singh, and Woman Senior Superintendent Fraser. Fraser is now the lone Female Assistant Commissioner of Police. Fraser is the Second in Command of Police Operations. Michael Kingston who has spent most of their policing career in the Criminal Investigation Department has been instrumental over the years in crime fighting both at the levels of Police Divisions and Force Headquarters where he functioned as the Crime Chief briefly.

Also among those are women Superintendents Nicola Kendall and Sonia Herbert, the only two females promoted to Senior Superintendents of Police. Kendall currently serves as the head of the Police Strategic Planning and Implementation Unit, Hubert who is Russian trained, has been serving as the Director of the Guyana Police Force Academy.

As it is now, many persons who walked into the Police Conference Opening senior to some persons will be leaving as subordinates to those persons who were once their juniors.