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The police’s inability or reluctance to solve high profile executions is troubling

Oct 23, 2012 Letters

 

DEAR EDITOR,
I, like many citizens, am troubled by the police’s inability or reluctance to solve high profile executions. If one were to follow the sequence of events leading to execution they all have the same pattern.
(1) Background checks on victims will reveal the motive behind the killing.
(2) There is solid intelligence out there that suggests that none of the killers hired to carry out these executions reside in Guyana. They are based in Venezuela, Cayenne and Suriname.
(3) All executions are well planned to the finest detail; victims are placed under surveillance for months by local people from the underworld. In many instances, ranks of police response teams are infiltrated, resulting in delayed responses.
(4) Killers enter and leave the country, illegally, through the backtrack routes.
(5) Intelligence out there suggests that the cost of executions is between US$500–US$25,000 depending on the status of the person.
(6) Intelligence suggests that three of the regularly used hit-men are Venezuelan nationals, four are Guyanese living in Cayenne, and one Guyanese and one Surinamese living in Suriname.
(6) Raw intelligence suggests that there are 3 locations in central Georgetown, where one can go and take pictures of the person, address and payments for execution.
(7) Raw intelligence suggests that weapons used in these executions are dropped off and picked up after execution by rogue cops and ex-cops who still possess their police ID.
(8) There are many citizens out there who can help the police identify most of the killers who are responsible for executions, but are scared to cooperate with the police.
(9)There are other persons out there from the underworld who are being targeted for execution before December because of sour drug deals.
(10) There is a business woman who is involved in a property dispute after her husband died, she is currently being stalked and intimidated by persons known and unknown. This business woman has no confidence in the Police and has turned to my agency for help to save her life. We are in the process of gathering information to forward to the police as this woman, if it wasn’t for my agency’s intervention, would have surely been added to the list of unsolved murders.
In view of the foregoing, I call on the Deputy Commissioner of Crime, Mr. Seelall Persaud who is a committed, dedicated and competent law enforcement officer and a man who is above reproach, to put in place the following:
1) Reactivation of the Criminal Intelligence Unit, headed by an officer who can manage and control intelligence.
2.) Shift around divisional CID Officers, Inspectors, Sergeants, every 6 months to other divisions.
3.) Identify new, committed, dedicated and competent ranks to form a new Police Narcotics Branch – former retired senior superintendent Phillip Armstrong should be recalled to head that section.
4.) Identify new ranks trained in interviewing and interrogation and deception detection techniques to support Mr. Trevor Reid, O/ C Homicide
5.) Have the Criminal Intelligence Unit and Police Special Branch monitor the activities of CID Ranks placed in sensitive positions.
If urgent action is not taken to put a halt to execution-style killing, we will have a complete breakdown of Law and Order, as sections of the Police Force have been infiltrated by the underworld. I also call on leaders of the opposition parties and civil society to come forward and take a stand.
Robert Gates

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