Latest update January 23rd, 2025 7:40 AM
PSC calls for appointment of Greene to substantive position
The Private Sector Commission yesterday called for the immediate confirmation of Henry Greene, by the government, to the position of Commissioner of Police.
Greene has been acting in the position for more than two years now after his predecessor Winston Felix demitted office.
President Bharrat Jagdeo
President Bharrat Jagdeo recently confirmed that Greene was his choice to be appointed to the substantive post.
He noted that what was stalling the process was the Leader of the main Opposition Party, Robert Corbin, who he said was “nitpicking and playing petty politics” as it relates to the appointment of Greene.
According to Jagdeo, in his previous meeting with Corbin which was an exploratory meeting on the issue, the PNCR Leader did not object to the appointment of Greene as Commissioner of Police.
“He is saying (that) now that we have written him the consultation needs to happen…It’s all nitpicking. I am very disappointed.”
PNCR Leader Robert Corbin
The PNCR later lashed out at Jagdeo saying that he was flouting the constitution by not going through due process as it relates to the appointment of a commissioner which states that there must be meaningful consultation.
Greene was appointed Acting Commissioner of Police in July 2006 and according to Article 211 of the constitution, “the Commissioner of Police and every Deputy Commissioner of Police shall be appointed by the President, acting after meaningful consultation with the Leader of the Opposition and Chairperson of the Police Service Commission, after the Chairperson has consulted with the other members of the commission.”
According to the PNCR, there was no record of such meetings, either with the party or the Police Service Commission.
Acting Commissioner of Police, Henry Greene
Meanwhile, the call by the Private Sector Commission (PSC) was made through a release to the media yesterday, where it sought to congratulate the security forces for bringing to an end the criminal career of Rondell ‘Fine Man’ Rawlins and a member of his gang, Jermaine ‘Skinny’ Charles.
The statement noted that the Commission, while recognizing that a well organized and extremely dangerous criminal enterprise has been seriously weakened by the removal of Rawlins as its leader, believes that it is critical that the security forces remain resolute in their pursuit of the remaining members of this gang and all other heavily armed and organized criminal enterprises which continue to pose a threat to the nation’s stability. “The Commission wishes to emphasise that approximately half of the weapons stolen from the Guyana Defence Force remain un-recovered and are a matter for considerable concern.”
The PSC also added its voice to a reverberating theme echoed by many that it continues to be a source of major concern that the majority of the Rawlins gang were recruited from very young members of our community, “seemingly readymade to be murderers and bereft of any form of human decency.”
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