Police Service Commission quietly reinstates Khalid Mandal
October 14, 2025
The Patrick Finlay-led Police Service Commission has quietly reinstated Assistant Commissioner of Police Khalid Mandal to perform active duties within the Guyana Police Force. The PSC reinstated Mandal without any public announcements or statements.
In a letter dated October 08, 2025, and signed by Jaigobin Jaisingh, the secretary of the Police Service Commission, Mandal was ordered to return to work.
“Please be informed that the Police Service Commission has given approval for you to be reinstated in your substantive capacity as Assistant Commissioner of Police, Guyana Police Force, Ministry of Home Affairs, with effect from a current date inclusive.” The PSC letter to Mandal stated
In April 2025, Mandal was sent on administrative leave to facilitate an investigation, which, among other things, was meant to look at the action taken by the police in the division surrounding the disappearance of 11-year-old Adriana Younge.
Younge was discovered dead inside the Double Day International Hotel at Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo Region 3. She had gone there the day before with her family members for an outing and was in the care of her grandmother at the time.
Mandal was sent on leave following public outcry over the police handling of the missing person report filed by the family after the child could not be found. It was stated that the pool was searched on the day she disappeared, and she was not located. However, the following day her body appeared in the pool.
The discovery of her body resulted in violence, looting, protests, street fires, and the destruction of the Double Day hotel, where the child’s body was found. It was not the first time someone was found dead at the facility.
The protest actions were believed to be occasioned after the police inaccurately stated accounts and a series of events surrounding the disappearance of Adriana Younge, which, when checked out, in some instances, never occurred.
Among them was the claim that the child was seen leaving the hotel in a car. The car driver was arrested, and after intense interrogation and a review of the government’s Smart City Security Cameras in the area and along the route, it was proven that the child never left the hotel after she arrived there with her family.
It should be noted that all along, the police were preventing persons from searching the building for the child. It was after her body was discovered in the pool that the protest and all other activities began. Persons felt that the police were shielding the hotel’s management in a way to facilitate an alleged act of disposing of the child’s body.
Commander Mandal had even pleaded with the child’s relatives to remove themselves from the hotel’s environs and go home while the police looked for the child.
The taxi Driver who was arrested has since filed an action against the state for wrongful detention, among other things.
On Tuesday, BIG Smith News Watch reached out to the Police Service Commission Chairman for a comment on his decision. An initial call to the chairman was met with him saying that he was in a meeting and asked us to send a message. The message was sent to him, which he read but refused to respond to. Subsequent calls to him went unanswered.
There was also no announcement by the Guyana Police Force on the return of Mandal and where he will be posted.
