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Plainclothes policemen accused of theft after raid on West Demerara home

Dec 16, 2008 News

A Goed Fortuin family is alleging that, yesterday morning, two plainclothes ranks entered their home and removed music equipment valued at approximately $400,000, along with $162,000 in cash and jewellery.
Speedboat Monitor for the Demerara River Speedboat Association, Steve Narine, said that, at approximately 8:30 hours yesterday, the ranks turned up at his Goed Fortuin home after they reportedly received complaints of a noise nuisance coming from the vicinity of his (Narine) home.
“I got a small set,” said Narine, “but is not me mekkin de noise. Dem church people de testing out de music for a rally they was going to have.” He added that the rally was supposed to be in the form of a parade from Patentia, West Bank Demerara to the Vreed-en-Hoop junction.
Narine added that he has always had problems with some of his neighbours, because of an altercation in the past, and he alleges that the neighbours summoned the police.
He maintained that there was no music coming from his house, and he assumed that, when the complaint was made, the police would have heard the music coming from the church. Instead, they came thinking that the music was coming from his house, he said.
According to Narine, he was not at home when the police ranks arrived, but his reputed wife of 23 years, Pamela Dwarka, was at home. She said that the plainclothes police arrived and asked if they (she and Narine) owned a music set.
She said that the ranks then asked to see it, when she answered in the affirmative. She added that she pointed to one of the speaker boxes, and then the police ranks said they wanted to come into the house to see the set.
She said that she pointed out that they were not dressed in uniform, and as such she did not know if they were really from the police. She said she told them that they could not enter her home. It was at this point that the police apparently barged into the house, went over to the music set and began to remove the wires which connected the various components of the set.
Dwarka said that she tried to intervene, but the police ranks pushed her to the ground. She reported that she injured her back, and later she started ‘spotting’.
Her reputed husband took her to the West Demerara Regional Hospital (WDRH), where she received treatment.
The police ranks apparently loaded the various amplifiers, three DVD players, an equalizer, the amplifier control system, a tape deck and a VCR (a total value of approximately $400,000) into a red car which was parked outside of the Goed Fortuin residence.
It was at this point that Narine arrived home, after Dwarka called him and told him what was transpiring.
“Ah come home fuh see dem men (police) done load up me equipment in de car,” said Narine. “So I tell dem fuh wait leh me go an see if anything else missing from de house, because I don’t know if they tek anything else.”
He went inside to check to see if anything else was missing, and by the time he had come back outside, the police ranks had already departed for the La Grange Police Station. They reportedly told Dwarka to come to the station at 13:00 hours, but failed to say why they wanted her at the station.
When he searched his house, Narine said, he found a gold chain and $162,000 in cash missing.
The chain was apparently taken from his bedroom, while the cash was removed from on top of a wall divider in his house.
Even though Narine confirmed that he did not see the police remove the cash and chain, he said that no one else had come into the house, and as such he is positive that they removed the valuables.
Narine is alleging that one of the ranks is a senior rank at the La Grange Police Station. Efforts were made by this newspaper to contact the La Grange Police Station, but these attempts proved futile.

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