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Police IT Specialists actively probing cyber threat to President

Apr 11, 2016 News

Police information technology experts are vigorously probing several aspects of the matter involving the 52-year-old woman and others, who allegedly posted racially-inciting social media comments about African Guyanese, and what appeared to be a threat to President David Granger.
Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum told this newspaper on Saturday that apart from the Force’s IT experts, investigators who have been trained in the detection of cyber crime are also weighing in on the matter.
Blanhum had earlier informed that the case was a sensitive one and had also declined to say whether the woman is likely to be charged.
The woman, said to be from Vergenoegen, East Bank Essequibo, was taken into custody two Thursdays ago and was questioned at CID Headquarters, Eve Leary.
She was subsequently released on station bail after giving investigators a statement.
Police had sought to locate the woman and two others after receiving a complaint about Facebook comments they had allegedly made about President Granger and African Guyanese.
But in a statement sent out to media houses, one of the individuals, who says he is a Canada-based Guyanese, has denied posting the comments attributed to him.
Blanhum had said that the perpetrators could be charged under the Racial Hostility Act for attempting “to incite excitement, hostility or ill-will on grounds of race.”
Chapter 23 of the Act states that a person shall be guilty of an offence if he willfully excites or  attempts  to  excite  hostility  or  ill-will  against  any  section  of  the public or against any person on the grounds of their or his race, by means of words spoken by him in a public place or spoken  by  him  and  transmitted  for  general  reception  by wireless telegraphy or telegraph; or by  causing  words  spoken  by  him  or  by  some  other person to be reproduced in a public place from a record; or  by  means  of  written  (including  printed)  matter or pictorial matter published by him.
Any person guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of $65,000 and imprisonment for two years.

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