Citizens have no one to place trust in for their security

Aug 26, 2009 Letters

Dear Editor,
With reference to the numerous unveiling of corrupt practices of the members of the Guyana Defence Force and the Guyana Police Force it leads me to conclude that the citizens of this country have no one to place trust in for their security.
When a group of trained military personnel, upon receiving a tip of a passenger with $17 million in his possession, can intercept a passenger boat and removed the occupant taking him for a “safe ride” (which turns out to be fatal).
I am quite certain that Dweive Kant Ramdass felt safe in the hands of the law, while transporting such a large sum of money, and betrayed when they began to take his life. After leaving Ramdass to die, these ranks honestly thought that CID officers of the Guyana Police Force would have left their straws unturned and overlook their guilt; well they assumed wrong – they became the prime suspects.
Now some other facts and fictions are coming out about the ranks that they always solicit speed boats operators’ hard earn money.
Could it be that the ranks of the GDF Coast Guard are responsible for countless acts of piracy at sea?
Do they have knowledge of the disappearance of 10-year-old Ricky Jainarine?
Did the Joint Services of Guyana have something to do with the Lindo Creek murders or any other extra-judicial killings?
These are just a few unanswered questions that are plaguing the minds of Guyanese. Isn’t it amazing how three rotten oranges can spoil an entire orchard?
This made me look at the other half of the Joint Services team (the Guyana Police Force).
Why are so many policemen and women sacrificing years of service only to be caught up in some mediocrity scam?
Let’s paint a picture- imagine being the lone occupant of your motor car and proceeding on a lonely road with a quantity of cash in your possession, and you hear the sound of a police siren indicating that you should pull over – then should you pull over? Should you allow them to search your vehicle? Will they kill you and take your money? These are a few thoughts that may momentarily flash across your mind.
Now tell me why citizen should be afraid of the military forces that are there to protect ad serve. I think the Commissioner of Police should put a foot down on all those policemen – unauthorised, dark location road blocks that the junior police rank engage in for their personal gains, and instead have more organised ones where they are senior ranks in order to control the junior ranks and their lawlessness. As what happened at the Demerara Harbour Bridge when they stopped the taxi driver and the Coast Guard’s brother and contemplated killing them and taking the money.
Travis Atwell.

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