Pres­i­dent Paula-Mae Weekes has nom­i­nat­ed a fifth mem­ber to the Po­lice Ser­vice Com­mis­sion.

In a press re­lease is­sued, a short while ago, the Of­fice of the Pres­i­dent an­nounced that Pres­i­dent Weekes nom­i­nat­ed at­tor­ney Ra­jiv Per­sad to the com­mis­sion af­ter con­sult­ing with Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley and Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, on Oc­to­ber 25.

Like with the four oth­er re­cent nom­i­na­tions by the Pres­i­dent, the re­lease stat­ed that the nom­i­na­tion let­ter was de­liv­ered to both Row­ley and Per­sad-Bisses­sar with on­ly Row­ley re­spond­ing.

Per­sad, a for­mer tem­po­rary High Court Judge and for­mer Deputy Chair­man of the In­tegri­ty Com­mis­sion, cur­rent­ly serves as vice-pres­i­dent of the Law As­so­ci­a­tion.

The move to ap­point new mem­bers of the com­mis­sion, which un­der the Con­sti­tu­tion con­sists of a Chair­man and four mem­bers, comes as four for­mer mem­bers in­clud­ing for­mer chair­man Bliss Seep­er­sad re­signed fol­low­ing the con­tro­ver­sy sur­round­ing the com­mis­sion's short-lived sus­pen­sion of for­mer act­ing po­lice com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith.

Per­sad and the oth­er nom­i­nees- re­tired Ap­pel­late Judge Ju­dith Jones, lead­er­ship and man­age­ment con­sul­tant Max­ine At­tong, Wealth Man­age­ment and First­line Se­cu­ri­ties Ltd head Max­ine King, aca­d­e­m­ic head of the Caribbean In­sti­tute for Se­cu­ri­ty and Pub­lic Safe­ty Ian Ramd­hanie will have to be de­bat­ed and ap­proved by Par­lia­ment be­fore they can be of­fi­cial­ly ap­point­ed.

They can then be­gin work on ap­point­ing a new act­ing Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er be­fore go­ing through the re­cruit­ment process for the sub­stan­tive post.