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Audit the assets of the members of the Police Force too

Jan 29, 2009 Letters

Dear Editor,
I welcome the move that has been implemented to do a forensic audit into the assets of the Customs and Trade Administration (CTA).
I would like to know when those in authority would authorise a move like that on the Guyana Police Force. Mr. Editor, some constables own vehicles more expensive than business owners or even the commander of the division, and I am not hearing of any questions being asked of how they could own such a vehicle, given what they are being paid.
On Monday 26th January, 2009 at around 2:30pm, two of my friends were travelling from Vreed-en-Hoop to their home in Zeelugt, when a traffic police sergeant drove up alongside the minibus they were travelling in and stopped it for being overloaded. The Sergeant asked the passengers to disembark. As my two friends were coming out of the bus the Sergeant instructed them to go into the police vehicle. The two young men complied and they were taken to the Leonora Police Station, where the Sergeant handed them over to a CID officer, saying “see what you will do to them”.
Mr. Editor, after constant questioning, the two young men were informed that they are being detained for an identification parade for some robbery that happened in Pouderoyen. They were then searched and placed in a cell amongst other prisoners.
On Tuesday at around 9:30am, I visited the station after I heard that they were being detained and queried why they are being detained and when they will be released, because one of the young man’s relatives are in the country for a funeral and they are anxious for his release.
One of the officers used a cell phone to find out if anyone by the names I give her was there and then came back and said yes. She then found out who brought them in and asked what they are charged for. She was then informed that they don’t know. She then directed me to the same officer that brought them in. I approached the rank and asked him for their release and he sent me back to a police corporal. When I reached the corporal he said that they are on $5,000 bail each. I asked him what they are charged for and he asked me if I am not interested in getting them out in a hurry. I answered in the affirmative and told the rank that I couldn’t pay that amount when they haven’t committed a crime.
To my amazement, after a few minutes the same corporal called me outside of the station and suggested that we talk business. I asked him what he meant and then he asked how much I had, that I had to leave something to get them out; if not they would have to stay longer. We finally agreed on $5,000 for the release of both of them. By the time they got home, one of the guy’s sisters was already in a plane on her way back to New York.
That is just one example of what happens daily. Ask anyone on the streets of their views of the Guyana Police Force and they all have negative things to say of them. How long are they going to continue that way?
Sahadeo Bates

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