Top Cop’s return hinges on DPP’s advice - Rohee

Top Cop’s return hinges on DPP’s advice – Rohee

Feb 04, 2012 News

Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee has said that the return of the embattled Commissioner of Police Henry Green is based on the recommendations of the Director of Public Prosecution.
At the time Rohee was responding to questions from members of the media about Green returning as Commissioner of the Guyana Police Force. In addition, the Home Affairs Minister said that ‘a bunch’ of other factors will be taken into serious consideration.
Green, who is currently on administrative leave, has been at the centre of a rape allegation.
The investigations stem from allegations made by a 34-year old woman who claimed that the Commissioner raped her in a city hotel back in November last year. Greene has denied the rape allegations, telling investigators that the sexual encounter with the woman was by mutual consent. But according to one investigator who asked not to be named, the question of consent is not one for the DPP to decide on.
“That is for the court. The DPP has to decide whether there is enough evidence to support the allegations of rape,” the investigator said.
Weighing heavily on the matter will be the woman’s initial statement, which she had given to local investigators at the Brickdam Police Station.
She told detectives, that after she had sought the assistance of the top cop to recover her cellular phone which was seized by the police, Greene subsequently invited her to his office to collect it.
According to the investigator, the woman has indicated that “she did not go there off of her own.”
The DPP for her part is giving out precious little on the matter.
“I still have some work to do on the matter. It’s a very thick file and I will have to go through everything.” Another issue that the investigators had looked closely at was the threats the woman alleged Greene had made to her.
The woman had claimed that shortly after arriving at the hotel, the Commissioner pulled out a gun and was waving it menacingly, which caused her to be afraid and she reluctantly exited the vehicle after he made a strange demand.
Meanwhile Crime Chief Seelall Persaud had told this newspaper last week that investigators are in the process of obtaining telephone records from the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company. This publication was also told that the file was expected back from the DPP last week.

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