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Battered woman bullied in police station
– Alleged abuser a member of Community Policing Group
A mother of four is calling on the Commander of ‘C’ Division, Brian Joseph, and relevant authorities
Shellyza Ally
to investigate a female police rank at the Leonora Police Station who, allegedly, is protecting a member of the Anna Catherina Policing group who assaulted her on Friday.
The victim was identified as Shellyza Ally of Anna Catherina, West Coast Demerara.
According to reports, the man confronted Ms Ally on Friday about family related issues. He then attacked the woman while she was driving out her street. He reportedly dealt her several blows to the face and ripped off her head scarf (kemar) before tearing off her top and bra.
Shellyza Ally explained that on Friday her husband’s aunt visited her residence. Later that day, her aunt’s stepson called her landline phone and began to use abusive and explicit words toward her. She later cut off the phone.
“The phone ring about four times again and I didn’t pick it up because I saw on the caller’s ID that it was the same person calling. He left a message on the phone saying, ‘Shelly you are a whore just like your aunt,” Ms Ally lamented.
She then left to visit the Leonora Police Station. Ally said that on her way, as she was driving through the street in her vehicle she was confronted by the same caller who is well known in the Anna Catherina Policing group.
“While driving to the police station there was my aunt stepson on a bicycle coming towards me, when he ride in front of my car and I had to stop.”
Ms Ally explained that the man then walked toward her vehicle and started slapping her in the face several times, then ripped off her Kemar, top and bra in the process.
“I was yelling ‘help’, and no one was coming forward to help me, and he was saying that he would kill me. But a junkie hold him back then I escaped through the front passenger seat. Only then people started to assist me and carry me in a yard where I got another top to wear.”
Adding that she called her husband after the ordeal, Ms Ally said they then visited the Leonora Police Station where she was insulted by a female police rank and told to leave the police station because she was crying.
“She told me I can’t cry in the place and I have to get outside. She told me I can’t sit inside the police station and that I have to go outside. I saw the man who is with the policing group and who beat me up in the station and the female police told him to go get a pen and write his own statement…
“She then started yelling at me when I had to give a statement and she told my family to go outside.”
Earlier in the year, Court Superintendent of the Guyana Police Force (GPF), Maxine Graham, in an address at the National Congress of Women (NCW) symposium which was held in observance of International Women’s Day 2012, noted that the Police Stations have systems in place to deal with domestic violence that affect many women in society.
“At these stations, we have specific domestic violence and sexual offences rooms. In addition, to the rooms, there are units- we have Sexual Offences Unit and Domestic Violence Unit” .
“The Sexual Offences Unit is manned by specialised female officers. This is to avoid female victims feeling uncomfortable while reporting their experiences.”
Ms Graham explained that even if victims go to the Inquiry Office to lodge complaints of an abuse, the report is taken but that person is sent immediately to the Sexual Offences Unit that would deal with the matter.
However, according to Ms Ally, this was not the case when she visited the station to make a report pertaining to her being beaten.
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