A FORMER high-ranking police officer has said he would have also rejected a transfer to the Ministry of Social Services if he were in the same position as Assistant Commissioner of Police Kendal Strachan. Paul Thompson, former assistant commissioner, told The Tribune yesterday something different like a consultancy should have been created for an officer of Mr Strachan’s calibre. “I would not have accepted it,” Mr Thompson said, adding: “Give me another job. Give me something with a bigger name. Like consultant or advisor on law enforcement to the prisons, something separate, not calling me a chief security officer at a girls (and boys) institution. I felt that was bad.” The new post would give ACP Strachan a new role of chief security of the Willie Mae Pratt School for Girls and Simpson Penn Centre for Boys. However he has refused to report to his new post.

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