the highest government officials have decided to relieve him of his duties. After the weekly session of the Council of Ministers, there was a meeting between the minister and President Jennifer Simons. There was also a meeting with the relevant authorities to discuss the current situation within the Police Force Suriname

 (KPS) and officials decided to relieve  Police Commissioner Bryan Isaacs of his duties.  It is now up to the minister of Justice and Police to reassign Isaacs. Meanwhile  Melvin Pinas has been appointed acting police commissioner. Officials will soon start the procedure aimed at appointing a new police commissioner. Earlier this week Minister Monorath had made it clear that he would give  Commissioner Isaacs room to finish his work despite the wave of criticism regarding his poor performance. Many citizens took to social media to express their disbelief and outrage after it was recently reported that $300,000 and 1.5 kilograms of drugs vanished out of a safe at the Narcotics Brigade. The disappearance of the money and the drugs was detected in April but was kept hush hush for the past four months. But this was not an isolated incident because more than SRD 1 million was stolen at the Munder Police Station by a chief inspector and a deputy inspector. The chief inspector and the deputy inspector had also extorted a citizen. Sources revealed that there were multiple reports about the misconduct of both inspectors but that their superiors failed to take disciplinary action against them. The police commissioner was aware of the irregularities but failed to take action. When Minister Monorath  came into office he made it clear that “involvement of police officials in serious offences is unacceptable.” He also made it clear that there must be full transparency within the police force and that corruption will be tackled firmly. According to Minister Monorath, the police commissioner should have sounded the alarm from the moment he was informed of the irregularities.