Justice Ramlal’s remarks replicate what happens often

Dec 11, 2010 Letters

Dear Editor,
Justice William Ramlal’s recent remarks regarding shoddy police work, when he discharged murder accused Paul Bagot can justifiably replicate what happens so very often.
The Guyana Police Force has simply lost its professionalism.
There are open secrets in this country and people know. Little wonder the Police Force is so corrupt. It is a reflection of the top.
A traffic cop, even without a regular number pinned to his shirt, asks boldly: “lef a raise, nuh!” Every hour, every day, tons of Guyanese suffer “shake downs” by the police.
The cops, totally ignorant of the laws they enforce, will tell you: “you breach the law; you gotta go to the Station. “That is the introduction to signal”; of course, you can avoid that if….
Almost every day you open the newspapers, some cop or ex-cop is engaged in some crime or the other. Is this what they were taught in Training School?
It gets worse. When their colleagues carry out investigations against another cop, vital pieces of evidence are omitted. A cop is a cop. The private citizenry is garbage.
God knows how many policemen/women rent weapons to criminals for a cut; how many police ranks are actually directly involved in robberies; why police always turn up hours after a robbery.
There have been horror stories of victims going to police stations to report robberies only to find some officers who were taking the reports were the robbers.
How many of these officers have been jailed or even charged?
Godfrey Skeete

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