Questioned of a report in a daily newspaper that Canadian Neal Parker, a retired member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and currently Deputy Commissioner of the Antigua Police Force, is the preferred choice to be this country's next Commissioner of Police, Persad- Bissessar said the last process for the COP was subverted. "The Government found a way to subvert it and bypass the law." "I don't know if it is a Canadian or not," insisting that the People's Partnership will abide by the law "until such law may be changed."
The search for a top cop has been ongoing for the past two years, since the previous government rejected the Police Service Commission's (PSC) nominee in 2008, complaining that the process of recruitment was flawed. Parker is one of five persons in line for the COP job. Told that some contracted workers at the Information Ministry were fearful of losing their jobs, Persad-Bissessar as everything else "we will have to review it. "If it is there are persons who don't necessarily need to be there, we will review it."