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We can’t keep making exceptions to the law

Feb 29, 2012 Letters

 

 

Dear Editor,
In connection with the Commissioner of Police, Henry Greene’s impasse with the DPP, I think that Mr. Greene should resign immediately for professional misconduct.
Mr. Greene should face the court like any ordinary Guyanese to clear his name if he believes that he is innocent of the allegation of rape. I believe in the principle that a man is innocent until proven guilty by a court of law.
I am no fan of the DPP, but in this case I have to agree with the DPP for upholding the law. If the DPP recommends a person to be charged, let the court decide if that person is guilty or not.
No one should approach the Chief Justice to decide if the DPP is wrong or right to recommend a charge, this is like trying a case before it goes to the court. The DPP holds a constitutional office and is not answerable to any individual, including the Chief Justice, in the execution of her legal duties.
What Mr. Greene is doing here is opening the floodgates for anyone who is charged with a crime to approach the Chief Justice to dispute the DPP or the police if they can afford to hire high-priced lawyers.
It amazes me that the Bar Association is keeping quiet even when one of their members, Mr. Greene, commits professional misconduct by having sex, consensual or otherwise, with a member of the public who approached him for assistance in his professional capacity as Commissioner of Police.
In any country, disciplinary proceedings by a professional organization such as the Bar Association would warrant an investigation on their delinquent member.
But more seriously, the government, who is the employer of Mr. Greene appears to be turning a blind eye on this situation and even talking about retaining Mr. Greene as Commissioner of Police (although he passed the retirement age a few years ago) as well as disregarding the serious rape allegations.
We are bound by a set of laws that if we stop applying them and keep making exceptions, we will go back to the point of….why do we have laws to begin with?
Balwant Persaud

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