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Henry Greene gone
– four month sex scandal brings down Police Commissioner
Embattled Police Commissioner Henry Greene has resigned. Greene offered to go into retirement
Embattled Police Commissioner Henry Greene
yesterday via a letter to Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr. Roger Luncheon, according to a brief statement from the Office of the President.
“By letter dated April 19, 2012, addressed to Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr. Roger Luncheon, Mr. Henry Greene, DSM, has offered to retire as the Commissioner of Police of Guyana,” the statement said.
“His Excellency Donald Ramotar, President of the Republic of Guyana has accepted his offer with immediate effect,” it added.
A top Government official had indicated earlier this week that the government was stepping up the pressure on Greene to resign over the sex scandal that has been dogging him.
The official had said that Greene would be fired if he refused to resign.
Before leaving for the Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia, President Donald Ramotar reportedly asked Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr. Roger Luncheon to “talk” to Greene, mainly to ask him to clear out his office.
But sources close to the Commissioner stated that another contributory factor to Greene’s decision to step down was the sudden death of his mother. Mrs. Irene Enid Greene passed away yesterday in Ohio, USA. She was 83.
Greene said that there is only so much a person can take. He added that the matter took a toll on him and his immediate relatives. He stopped short of blaming his mother’s death on the scandal and subsequent public outcry for his head.
Greene’s fall from grace began in December last year, when a 34-year-old mother of two claimed that the Police Commissioner raped her after forcing her into a city hotel.
She alleged that they first met on November 15, 2011, when she went to meet the Top Cop to enquire about the status of an investigation regarding her.
She said that in the process of the investigations, the Police had taken possession of her mobile phone and she wanted to recover the phone.
The woman claimed that Greene told her to meet him on November 22 to uplift the phone and afterwards he offered her a ride home.
However, she alleged that she was driven to a city hotel where the Commissioner pulled out a gun and waved it at her, causing her to be afraid. At this point, she said she reluctantly exited the vehicle after Greene made a strange demand.
In a statement he made to investigators, Greene said that when the woman came to meet him at Police Headquarters on November 22 last it was upon her insistence that they meet “socially” that they ended up at a villa and had consensual sex.
Following an investigation by local and Jamaican detectives, the DPP recommended that Mr. Greene be charged with rape.
But Greene moved to the High Court to challenge the DPP’s recommendation, and Chief Justice Ian Chang ruled that the DPP’s decision to charge was irrational and would not stand a chance of success in the courts.
Opposition political parties, human rights groups and at least one Government minister expressed dismay at the decision. They were adamant that Greene should vacate his post given that he admitted to having sex with the woman at the centre of the scandal.
The Transparency Institute of Guyana said Greene was unfit to hold high or any public office and called on him to resign immediately.
“The human rights group stated that Greene’s behaviour “violates the minimum standards of professionalism and integrity required of any member of law enforcement and certainly that required of the Commissioner.”
Henry Greene became Police Commissioner on July 24, 2006 when then Commissioner of Police Mr. Winston Felix, proceeded on pre-retirement leave.
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