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PNCR slams Police over schoolboy’s slaying

Jun 10, 2010 News

…says family must be compensated

On the eve of the possible debate and possible approval of the report of the Disciplined Service Commission which has been pending for some four years, the People’s National Congress Reform says that it is shocked and appalled at the recent police killing of 16-year-old Kelvin Anthony Fraser by ranks of the Guyana Police Force at West Bank Demerara.
The incident, the party says, comes at a time when the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security headed by Priya Manickchand, continues to preach about the Rights of the Child, protecting children, and the expansion of the Child Protection Unit at that Ministry.
“It is amazing the manner in which the Guyana Police Force has interpreted its duty to protect the rights of our children.”
The party contends that one would have expected that the recent national and international condemnation of the torture of a 14-year-old boy at Leonora Police Station would have caused the Minister of Home Affairs, Clement Rohee, and the Commissioner of Police, “to rein in their ranks…It is obvious that nothing significant has been done to ensure that the GPF lives up to its motto to serve and protect.”
The party also pointed to President Bharrat Jagdeo’s recent proclamation that children are important to his Government.
“But it is obvious that those were mere words…Is this how the PPP/C Administration takes care of children…Are the police not responsible for protecting our children. So why are they violating them through torture and murder?”
The party pointed to the Disciplined Services Commission which over four years now made more than 150 recommendations for the improvement in performance of the Guyana Police Force.
The PNCR charged that instead of implementing the recommendations, “the PPP/C had done all in its power to delay the consideration of those recommendations by a select Committee of the National Assembly.”
The party said that it is ironic that the killing of this teenager by the Police has occurred just as the National Assembly will finally discuss, today, the Motion to adopt the report of the Disciplined Services Commission.
The party questioned whether the Guyana Police force is sending a signal that they are a law unto themselves.
“Whatever may be the answer the PNCR holds the Minister of Home Affairs and the Commissioner accountable for the indiscipline and lawless behaviour…The PNCR condemns this recent outrage and calls for urgent disciplinary action as well as adequate and full compensation to the family of the victim.”

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