PHILIPSBURG:--- At least two Chief Inspectors of Police that have been holding their positions for some years now have to wait much longer before their scales and salaries can be adjusted.
SMN News learnt that the Governor of St. Maarten returned the advices sent to him to adjust the scaling and salaries of Chief Inspector Ricardo Henson who have been heading the department of communications at KPSM for some six years now. While Henson is a department head his scale should now be at 12 which will give him a salary increase and an increase in his pension benefits. Another Chief Inspector that has to wait much longer is Carlyle Rogers, Head of the Simpson Bay Police outpost.
According to information SMN News received is that the Governor found more mistakes in the advices that was sent to him for approval thus he returned them back late last week for corrections.
Last week Chief Commissioner of Police Peter de Witte told SMN News that the advices were by the Governor and that both officers will soon get their scales and salaries adjusted. De Witte said the advices was sent twice in 2014 and both times they were sent back. He said when he made the statement to SMN News last week he had no idea that the advices were sent back due to mistakes. De Witte said that he was informed by one of the officers who have been waiting for is adjustments he checked with the Ministry and he was informed that only late last week the Ministry got some correspondence from the Governor and the intention is to look for the advices to see what mistakes were made and to have them corrected and sent back to the Governor in order for these officers to get what is rightly due to them.
