Ellison Greenslade


Ellison Edroy Greenslade QPM is a Bahamian retired police officer who was Commissioner of Police of the Royal Bahamas Police Force, and then became the Bahamas High Commissioner to the Court of St. James's. He had a long and distinguished career as a police officer and rose to become the sixth Commissioner of Police in an independent Bahamas on the 4th January 2010. This is a post which he held until 30th October 2017 when he retired with full honours to accept his appointment as High Commissioner.

Education

Greenslade was born in New Providence on 24 May 1961 and attended schools in Cedar Harbor, Abaco; Lovely Bay, Acklins; Kemp's Bay, Andros; Knowles, Cat Island; and Stephen Dillet, Nassau. He graduated from S.C. McPherson Junior High and the Government High School, both in Nassau, New Providence. Upon graduation from the Police Training College, he continued studies on a part-time basis. He subsequently obtained an associate degree in Business Administration from the University of the Bahamas. He holds a postgraduate degree in police management and law enforcement from the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom. He also holds a MBA from the University of Miami, 1998.

Career

Greenslade joined the Senior Executive Leadership Team of the Royal Bahamas Police Force in July 2000, when he was appointed Assistant Commissioner of policing services on Grand Bahama which required him to be transferred to Freeport, Grand Bahama. He served in Freeport for seven years and returned to Nassau once he was appointed to the rank of Senior Assistant Commissioner of Police.
Some of his notable career achievements with the Royal Bahamas Police Force are: pioneering the introduction and implementation of information technology, designing a Bahamian COMPSTAT and managing the CDR review of the Force. He was also a founding member of the Research and Planning Unit and the Computer Centre of the Royal Bahamas Police Force. In October of 2017 he was publicly recognized for decades of devotion to his country and the police force and thanked for his various successes as commissioner, including the prevention and detection of crime; community policing and community outreach; increasing professionalism in the force and enhanced use of communications and other technologies.

Honours

On the 31st December 2003, Greenslade was awarded the Queen's Police Medal for distinguished services to policing and the community.