In a brief statement released this afternoon, Governor Stuart Jack has announced that he has fired Police Commissioner Stuart Kenohan from the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service.
Mr. Kernohan has actually been off the job since his removal by the Governor on 27 March, but has been receiving full pay since that time while being investigated for alleged misconduct in a public office.
“I am aware that the public has been questioning the status of the Royal Caymanian Police Commissioner, Mr Stuart Kernohan. I can now advise that after reviewing all the circumstances, of Mr Kernohan’s conduct as it relates to the terms and conditions of his employment including his continuous unauthorised absence from the Islands, I am left with no option but to accept that he has unilaterally severed his contract with the Cayman Islands government, and I now therefore treat it as at an end,” Mr. Jack said in a statement released this afternoon. “I am advised that the termination of the contract will does not in any way affect the ongoing police investigation against Mr Kernohan, whom I understand the police intend to interview shortly.”
Governor Jack said he has instructed the government Portfolio of Internal and External Affairs to begin the recruitment process for a new full-time commissioner. Newly-appointed Acting Police Commissioner Royce Hipgrave was scheduled to arrived in Cayman today (Tuesday).
Mr. Kernohan, along with Deputy Police Commissioner Rudolph Dixon and RCIPS Chief Superintendent John Jones, has been under investigation for several months in connection with allegations ofin a public office. An investigative team from the UK Metropolitan Police Service is conducting the review.
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