— new heads for Special Branch, Strategic Management Department and Regional Division Five

THREE senior superintendents of the Guyana Police Force were reassigned on Wednesday as part of a reform of the force.
These reassigned were Ravindradat Budhram, Phillip Azore and Edmond Cooper, who will head the Special Branch, Strategic Management Department and Regional Division Five respectively.

Superintendents Dion Moore, Alistair Roberts and Yonette Stephens have also been reassigned. Moore was previously Deputy Commander of Region Three while Roberts, who now heads the Impact Base was the Personal Assistant to Commissioner of Police, Leslie James, who is now on pre-retirement leave.
Stephens, who previously commanded Regional Division Five is now the deputy in that division.

The reshuffling is part of efforts to ensure a more effective and efficient Guyana Police Force.

Under the previous administration, a number of senior officers who held command posts were removed and sent to lesser offices, and in some instances, others were transferred out of the force. Many of those transfers have since been reversed.

Assistant Commissioner of Police, Clifton Hicken, who was seconded to the Ministry of the Presidency, is now head of operations of the force and Senior Superintendent, Wendell Blanhum, who was posted in Region One, has returned to his former post as chime chief.

Transfers within the Guyana Police Force are done solely by the commissioner of police, who is empowered to do under the Police Act.