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An appeal to all organisations with good moral values to support McBean
Dear Editor,
I am asking all decent law abiding citizens to voice their concerns and support for Asst. Superintendent McBean.
This police officer unselfishly and with great personal and financial sacrifice accepted an advance police training that will benefit the citizens of Guyana, only to be told that he didn’t follow protocol and was dismissed from the Guyana Police Force which he dedicated his life to.
Recruits are expected to enforce laws that they can’t even read. No wonder they don’t want bright, sharp and ambitious officers like Asst. Supt. McBean, who can think for himself and come up with his own conclusion. It seems he is a threat to the status quo.
It seems that the Guyana Police Force is comfortable with its present motto when is comes to represent its citizens.
The recruitment standards are so low, that they focus on recruiting persons with only a primary school education, and offer them no chance for self improvement. These recruits are then constantly reminded during their training that they work for the State and not the citizens of Guyana. We see the results.
During 2003-2004, when tension between the police and citizens were at their all time low, it was Mr. McBean who as the Officer- in- Charge in New Amsterdam invited some secondary school children on several occasion to the Station to see the operation of the police, and helped to heal the growing divide that was permeating our country.
This is a real slap in the face to everything good which the Guyana Police Force stands for and this government has allowed their own selfish agenda as always to be in the forefront of this matter — just like everything they’ve been trying to push in front of the media these days; scapegoat issues just to detract and distract Guyanese from the real issues.
The government seems to be running the Guyana Police’s show as they are dictating who, when, where and how people are arrested and tried for certain crimes. I would like to suggest that they let the police do their jobs.
Training is so important in any organisation if it needs to survive, we cannot conduct a proper investigation without torturing to extract information, there are several investigations that the police undertook over the years without conclusion and they lack forensic capability all because of lack of training.
Just take a look at all the unsolved murders and crimes in our nation over the past years: Minister Sash Sawh; Kaieteur News pressmen murder; Lindo Creek just to name a few. Now this ambitious officer took the initiative to seek self-improvement that will benefit the GPF and its citizens he is dismissed.
I am therefore echoing an appeal to all organisations with good moral values to support this outstanding young officer.
Sydney Tait
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