Citizens nab truck robbers, but loot disappears

Dec 20, 2008 News

Thanks to a group of public-spirited persons in the La Bonne Intention area, four men who held up a delivery truck and robbed the driver/salesman of $50,000 and a quantity of jewellery, at about 14:30 hours on Thursday, have been captured.
Police, in a press release, stated that Dayson Yearwood, an employee of Sterling Products Limited, was attacked and robbed by four men, one of whom was armed with a cutlass.
According to the police, Yearwood, along with two porters, was delivering supplies to a shop when he was confronted by the men, who took away the cash and his jewellery.
The men fled further into the village, but residents who saw the entire operation confronted them and subsequently detained them, before handing them over to the police.
However, according to a source, none of the stolen items was recovered.
“This look like a robbery after a robbery,” a police source remarked.
According to a source close to the investigation, “The men like they so confuse and there were so many villagers that they cannot say who took the stolen items from them.”
Kaieteur News understands that two of the robbers are from Mon Repos while another is from Prospect, East Bank Demerara, but the fourth is of no fixed place of abode.
The men are expected to be placed before the courts soon, when it is likely that they will be forced to forfeit their freedom for the Christmas holidays.
This recent action by the residents of LBI is in stark contrast with those of residents of East La Penitence and Soesdyke, who ended up killing the persons they had apprehended after suspecting them of committing crimes.
While the Guyana Police Force has appealed for assistance from the public, acting Commissioner Henry Greene said that vigilante justice is one of the help that the police could do without.
Greene was lamenting the recent cases of citizens taking the law into their own hands, resulting in the deaths of two individuals.
A month ago, three persons were charged with the vigilante-style killing of an ex-convict at Soesdyke, while electrician Hardel Haynes was beaten to death by residents of East La Penitence in what appears to be a case of mistaken identity.
Speaking at the police awards ceremony on Monday at the Police Officers Mess Annex, the acting commissioner said that there may be some extra enthusiasm by some members of the public to bring perpetrators to justice.
He warned that anarchy will prevail if persons take the law into their own hands.
“If each of us decides that, for every wrong that is done, we’ll pick up a cutlass, pick up a knife or pick up a gun, could you see the disorder this country would be in? If each of us decides that, look, anybody touches my family we’re going to get together and lynch them, could you see the state of disorder this country would be in?” Greene asked.
“That is the sort of support we don’t want, and that is the sort of support we discourage, where members of the public decide to take the law into their own hands,” the acting commissioner added.
He said that the police are there to support the public, although the public sometimes find the police less than helpful.
In many cases, persons report matters to the police and the expected help is not forthcoming.
In some cases, persons making reports at one particular police station are referred to another station, which further increases their frustration.
The commissioner said that this can be very frustrating, but he warned citizens not to let the frustration get the better of them and lead them to carry out unlawful acts, such as vigilante beatings, which can result in death.
And as if to show that the organisation means business, a female corporal who was on duty when the injured Hardel Haynes was dumped at the East La Penitence Police Station has been transferred to the Police Mounted Branch.
It was reported that the rank was less than professional with the issue.
The acting commissioner said that it is disgusting to see that, in this day and age, ranks are not being helpful and professional with members of the public.

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