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The police force makes a mockery of this country

Oct 23, 2012 Letters

 

DEAR EDITOR,
Parliament opened yesterday and the barricades were put in defiance of a parliamentary motion stopping the blockade. It calls into question what was the purpose of our votes in the last election. Parliament is now a joke in the eyes of the nation.
The Parliament passed a motion to stop the barricades but the Police Commissioner ignored Parliament. Christopher Jones told a PNC rally at Stabroek Market Square last Friday that the PNC would pull down the barricades. Jones drove up to Parliament yesterday, saw three barricades, and quietly went into the National Assembly. Not only APNU, but the PNC is becoming an embarrassment to their supporters
This same Commissioner has been lecturing the police force since the Linden deaths on professionalism, but you wonder if he operates with professional values himself.
I confronted the officers in charge outside of Parliament with a letter the Police Commissioner wrote. I had a problem getting them to tell me who was in charge. One officer wanted to know who was in charge in relation to what. I got agitated and told him there has to be an officer in charge of operations outside of Parliament
I showed him a letter by the Commissioner in which he stated that pedestrians would be allowed to cross the barricades. This was because the police were preventing people from walking on the streets that had the blockade.
All the ranks rejected the Commissioner’s letter telling me that was a matter for the Police Commissioner not them.
I called the Commissioner and he refused to take responsibility for his police duties by indicating that Commander Vyphuis was the person to speak to. Vyphius listened to me, said not a word, then hung up.
This is the Guyana Police Force for you. These people, from the Commissioner right down, have no respect for professional values and are not going to professionalize the force. The Guyana Police Force makes a mockery of this country
Frederick Kissoon

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