Nov 13 - PC John Pizarro Receives Long Service Clasp
Next week, PC John Pizarro will retire from the Royal Gibraltar Police after a lifetime of service. Her Excellency, successive Governors and Convent staff have had the pleasure of working with him and benefitted from his kind attention and dedication. As a gesture of gratitude for his service, Her Excellency the Governor Alison MacMillan has presented a Long Service Clasp and a framed picture of the Convent Cloister to PC Pizarro.
Speaking after the event at the Convent, Mrs MacMillan said: “It has been a pleasure to recognise John’s hard work and dedication to his job. I have worked with John for many years and he has always been, and will always be, a close friend of the Convent’.
The event was also attended by the Commissioner of the Royal Gibraltar Police Eddie Yome and Chief Secretary Ernest Gomez also attended the event. The Commissioner praised PC Pizarro’s professionalism and thanked him for working tirelessly behind the scenes on a wide range of events which he has been instrumental in organising.
PC John Pizarro joined the Civil service in Gibraltar on the 9th July 1978. He was later transferred to the Gibraltar Police Force on the 4th October 1980. He spent his initial years in the Operations Division in the newly established White Shift (this followed the implementation of the four shift system in the Gibraltar Police Force).
In 1984 John was transferred to the Community Policing Unit where he served as a Community Constable for about four years before moving back to shift. He was later transferred to the Commissioner’s Suite in 1992 where he has to date served under five different Commissioners.
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