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Police commission computer laboratory
The recently passed legislations and the tabling of Bills in the National Assembly by the Ministry of Home Affairs along with the training of law enforcement officers are means of strengthening capacity, accountability and effectiveness of ranks within the Guyana Police Force.
Minister of Home Affairs, Clement Rohee, yesterday expressed these sentiments, while addressing ranks of the Guyana Police Force during the commissioning of the police Computer Training Centre, Eve Leary.
The new computer laboratory has 25 computers and is located at the Felix Austin Police College.
Addressing the small gathering at the commissioning ceremony, Minister Rohee asked that the project be looked at from a contextual perspective.
“We see so many things happening in the security sector that sometimes we do not make the linkage between these developments.”
He said that the establishment and commissioning of the computer centre has to be linked with other developments that are taking place within the security sector.
“For example, at the legislative front, a number of security-related pieces of legislation are currently being passed in the National Assembly or have been raised in the National Assembly for consideration.
Those pieces of legislation are an integral part of the changing security architecture in this country,” Rohee said.
The laws having been passed, he pointed out, have to be implemented and for these to be enforced, the capacity and institutions that have to implement them also have to be strengthened.
“The training process is part of the institutional strengthening and capacity building. We are constantly asked, ‘do the police have the capacity to do the things which we are seeking to have done with the passage of pieces of legislation?’
Our answer is that first of all we need to be given the tools to equip the police to enforce the law,” the Minister said.
One of these tools is the ‘training tool’, providing ranks with the teaching to increase the individual capacity of each policeman/woman to impose and to ensure that proper accountability and effectiveness is carried out by the force.
While the centre is equipped with computers, printers and the multi-media projector are still to be installed. These will be put for tender next week.
The establishment of the centre is part of a US$22M loan from IDB over a five-year work plan to modernise the Ministry of Home Affairs, and to provide institutional modernization/institutional strengthening of the Guyana Police Force and Community Action Component.
The Community Action Component will focus on getting communities involved in crime and violence prevention.
This also includes the construction and equipping of a modern forensic laboratory for which construction will commenced at the end of the year.
This money will also cover the cost for the construction of a new training facility at Dora, Linden/Soesdyke Highway.
At the commissioning ceremony also Acting Commissioner of Police, Henry Greene, urged ranks to be computer literate since information technology is the ‘way to go’.
“We have already installed computers in the CID departments through our own budgetary arrangements to link CID headquarters with all the divisions via the internet,” Greene said.
According to the Commissioner, Berbice and Essequibo are yet to be linked in the network.
When this is done, he added, the police will have more capability to fight crime since a more advanced system will be in place.
He pointed out that the modernisation of stations will help to save time and reduce the time ranks have to spend on the telephone to send and receive information.
The $17M project was funded by a loan from the International Development Bank (IDB) to the government.
(Tusika Martin)
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