ASSISTANT Commissioner of Police and his deputy, Fizal Karimbaksh, have been seconded from the Guyana Police Force to the Ministry of the Presidency’s Department of Citizenship and Civil Defence Commission respectively.

Before their secondments, Hicken was serving as Assistant Commissioner responsible for training within the Guyana Police Force, while Karimbaksh functioned as his deputy. The two reportedly got their letters informing them of their reassignments on Tuesday afternoon just after lunch. Contacted on Wednesday morning, Minister of Public Security, Khemraj Ramjattan, indicated that the move, especially of Hicken, was strategic and necessary. “The commissioner has the right to move police officers anywhere he sees fit as part of the operational mandate of the police force and he has advised that Clifton Hicken is an extremely effective policeman and he would serve well at the Department of Citizenship where we are having all those problems.”