THE fate of Senior Superintendent Reneto Adams was unclear yesterday, as two months after completing psychological evaluation and counselling following his acquittal of murder in December he is still to get word on his reinstatement to the constabulary.

Yesterday, chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC) Noel Hylton told the Observer that the decision to reinstate the colourful Jamaican cop rests with the Police Commissioner Lucius Thomas.

“The reinstatement of officers is the responsibility of the commissioner of police, not the Police Service Commission,” Hylton said. He added that the decision to reinstate officers was part of the operational procedures.

At the same time, he said that the PSC has not received any communication from the commissioner of police on the matter. He noted, however, that Commissioner Thomas may have sent the recommendation to the secretariat of the PSC, which is scheduled to meet next month.

Hylton said the PSC is responsible for discipline, promotion and transfers. He said, however, that up to five years ago the PSC was responsible for transfers, based upon the recommendation of the commissioner of police.

Police Commissioner Thomas had ordered that Adams undergo counselling and psychological evaluation by police chaplain Rev Dr Vivian Panton and the force’s resident consultant psychiatrist Dr George Leveridge.

He told the Observer in March that at the end of the process, Leverage would make a recommendation and evaluation as to whether Adams was ready for reintegration into the force and appropriate action taken by the Police Service Commission.

It was not clear yesterday if the report on the counselling and psychological evaluation had been submitted to Thomas.

However, in the March interview the police chief said: “Whenever the analytical report and recommendation from Dr Leverage and Rev Panton comes to me, I will have to refer it to the Police Service Commission and they are the ones who will decide appropriately whether Senior Superintendent Adams will be reinstated to his job

Meanwhile, Adams, who had turned to the public defender for help, yesterday threatened to take legal action if he was not reinstated to the constabulary.

“. I went to the Public Defender who is investigating the matter. And I can tell you if it is not resolved at that level, I will be going straight to the Supreme Court for justice,” said the 57 year-old Adams, who served the constabulary for 30 years.

Adams, who has been suspended from the force since 2003 after he and five members of the disbanded Crime Management Unit were charged with murder of four people in Crawle, Clarendon, was acquitted of the charge last December.