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Cop shoots man while acting as private enforcer

Mar 17, 2011 News

An Inspector of the Guyana Police Force is currently under close arrest after he shot and wounded a man while acting as an enforcer for a businessman.
The inspector, who is attached to the Tactical Services Unit, was contracted by the businessman to track down one of his former employees who had reportedly embezzled a sum of money from him.
Police in a press release stated that investigations are being conducted into a matter which occurred at about 18:35 hours on Tuesday at No. 2 Village, East Canje, Berbice.
The police stated that an Inspector of Police whose services were unlawfully secured by a businessman, went in search of a former employee.
According to the police, the Inspector who was in plainclothes at the time located the former employee,  Yadram Rooney, 30, of Broad and Ketley Streets, Charlestown, Georgetown, at No. 2 Village and during efforts to arrest Rooney, he shot and injured the man in the region of left arm pit after he was allegedly attacked with a piece of wood.
A source in Berbice told Kaieteur News that the inspector had travelled with the businessman to Berbice from East Coast Demerara and located Rooney, who tried to run away upon seeing the men.
However he was shot and subsequently taken to the New Amsterdam Public Hospital where he was admitted a patient.
The source said that Commander of the Berbice Division, Assistant Commissioner Steve Merai, ordered the seizure of the Inspector’s weapon and placed him under close arrest.
Investigations into the matter continue.

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