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Police ranks ordered to get rid of minibus and hire cars

Jul 21, 2011 News

If an order from within the Guyana Police force holds true, no police rank, whether junior or senior, should be involved in the minibus or hire car business unless they receive the consent of the Commissioner of Police.
According to Top Cop Henry Greene, the force had given its ranks a moratorium to delink themselves from such activities.
“We have an order, we had given them a moratorium up to May (this year) to get rid of all minibuses,” Greene told members of the media yesterday.
There are reports that a number of vehicles that are involved in the public transportation system are owned and sometimes operated by members of the Police Force, thereby compromising efforts to maintain law and order on the roadways.
In some cases it is alleged that police traffic ranks turn a blind eye to many traffic violations by public transport operators, while the operators themselves carry on in a manner that suggests that the system is compromised.
But according to the Commissioner, the force is taking every action to remove that perception.
He disclosed that recently the force fired another policeman for driving minibus and for ownership of minibus. Despite his efforts to get back his job the force has not budged.
“Policemen, we have an order, no minibus, no hire car. That is clear as crystal and if they are found, we use the Police Act which says that the commissioner has to give the permission to be involved in any trade or business. That is one we are not permitting, minibus or hire car,” Greene stated.

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