COMMISSIONER of Police, Leslie James, on Friday, confirmed that Deputy Commissioner of Police Lyndon Alves will not be returning to the Guyana Police, but will head out into early retirement.

James who was grilled by members of the press in relation to the position of Alves made reference to the fact that Alves will soon be heading into retirement hence his administrative leave will lead him into his retirement. It must be noted that the investigations into allegations against Alves had been completed and that the report was said to be with President David Granger and Minister of Public Security, Khemraj Ramjattan.

“Mr. Alves is on Administrative Leave and I can say to you that is likely to lead him straight into retirement,” James told the media on Friday afternoon.

The commissioner made the comments after delivering the feature address at passing out parade for three courses of the Felix Austin Police College which saw more than eighty ranks graduating to become new police officers. James was asked about the appointment of another Crime Chief now that Alves will not be returning to the Guyana Police Force.

“Well you know there is a current acting Crime Chief, very soon a decision will be made whether to confirm the current acting Crime Chief as Crime Chief or whether to have another person put in place but that decision would be made very soon.”

Alves was suspended in June of this year following a series of reports which sought to link him to persons of a certain character and also which accused him of allowing a number of junior ranks to carry out certain kinds of operations outside of the force SOPs.

Those reports were ignored for a prolonged period by the Guyana Police Force Administration until senior government functionaries got involved and a decision was made by the force to send Alves on leave to facilitate a probe in the public’s interest.

Alves departure from the force will now leave an opening for one new Deputy Commissioner of Police as well as the need for the appointment of a substantive Crime Chief.