The Commissioner of Police Ian McGrail OTM M.Sc is pleased to announce that the Gibraltar Police Authority has agreed to the designation of the Chief Superintendent’s post with the approval of the Minister for Justice. The said post will now be designated, Assistant Commissioner. This will not represent a change to the post’s existing Terms and Conditions or remuneration.

This follows a review of the RGP’s present rank structure commissioned by Mr McGrail, which established that the existing rank did not faithfully represent the role being performed by the Chief Superintendent either within the organisation or in multiagency fora.

In illustrating his point, the Commissioner explained that the current bearer of the rank performed a role more akin to that of an Assistant Chief Constable in a UK county force or Commander in the Metropolitan Police. By way of only one example, the Chief Superintendent chairs the second tier of Gibraltar’s National Security apparatus, the Executive Committee of the Gibraltar Contingency Council (EXCO- GCC). Most of the members are Heads of Department.

Furthermore, the Commissioner believed that the existing designation was not representative of the post’s position in the RGP hierarchy as de facto second in command of the organisation and deputy in the Commissioner’s absence.

The present incumbent will assume the post of Assistant Commissioner with immediate effect.