AN independent review could be held into the suspended Police Chief’s claims that he is the victim of a ‘blatant abuse of political power’.

St Helier Constable Simon Crowcroft has submitted a proposition to the Bailiff calling for a ‘compliance check’ into the way former Home Affairs Minister Andrew Lewis carried out the suspension of Graham Power. Mr Power has claimed that his suspension was neither proportionate nor carried out properly.

Mr Crowcroft wants the proposition, which calls for new Home Affairs Minister Ian Le Marquand to commission the review, to be lodged for debate early in the New Year. But any debate would have to be carried out in camera, like the brief States debate into the suspension that was held earlier this month.

Mr Power, pictured, was suspended from duty on full pay on 12 November after the States of Jersey Police announced that there was no evidence to back up claims of child murder at Haut de la Garenne.