The police officer at the center of a controversial wedding at the Central Police Station has been on administrative leave since last April, The Nassau Guardian has confirmed. The officer's alleged decision to allow drug suspect Kendrick Tinker to marry Cindy Carrol on March 8, 2014 has left his future on the force in limbo.

The wedding arrangements had already been planned, but Tinker's arrest at the Potter's Cay Dock on March 7 posed a hiccup to the scheduled nuptials. The officer reportedly permitted the couple to exchange vows at the station, but Tinker remained in the lock-up as the wedding reception went on.

Days after the wedding, Commissioner Ellison Greenslade said, "It breached force policies and procedure.

"No one in their right mind anywhere on the planet would recognize that there could be any semblance of order to having a person incarcerated, whose liberties by law properly have been taken from [him], to be taken out of a police force cell and be allowed to consummate some marriage ceremony in a police station.

"That is a disgrace to The Bahamas, to the Royal Bahamas Police Force, and everything good and decent that we stand for."

Greenslade recently suggested he would have dismissed the assistant superintendent if he had the authority. As a gazetted officer, the assistant superintendent is disciplined by the Police Service Commission after proceedings are initiated by the commissioner.

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