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Immediate police reform needed

Jun 18, 2010 Letters

Dear Editor,
The brutal slaying of Kelvin Fraser highlights the fact that the Guyana Police Force (GPF) needs urgent reform. How many times must this statement be made of the police or how many more sad stories do we have to endure before this nonsense comes to a halt.
There have been countless reports and studies done on this subject with no substantial proof of a change forthcoming and this worries me greatly. A close scrutiny of the police will find a litany of woes too numerous to mention something which did not start yesterday it was there all along.
The situation has reached crisis proportions I would agree but not this overnight change in behaviour as some writers seem to suggest the police have been a corrupt lot for too long.
Reform must start now and it runs the whole gamut of what constitutes good and proper law enforcement that is from the quality of individuals chosen at recruitment programmes to their professional training. For too long the police have been adding persons of questionable character even downright criminals to the force or those who are only trained to shoot (the brute force and ignorance syndrome) and nothing else this has to stop.
Talk about anger management and a lack of self control from those who swore to protect and serve, well this was evident in this latest shooting death of that youngster. When would the implementation of the promised reform take place only heaven knows?
Neil Adams

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