The Police Commissioner must be professional

Nov 21, 2012 Letters

Dear Editor,
Kindly allow me the graceful permission to pen this missive concerning some issues, which according to my estimation, have the tentacles’ to escalate into civil unrest and even more-so into organizational discontent.
The main issue of which I speak is one in which the Acting Commissioner of Police, Leroy Brumell, someone whom I looked up to believing that he would have served the Guyana Police Force in his designated capacity, by word and deed.
All my illustrious dreams of an efficient and effective Commissioner were shattered when it was revealed that my promising Commissioner, at the re-commissioning of the Headquarters of “C” Division of the Police Force, at Cove and John, East Coast Demerara, had reneged on that pledge he took when he joined the force, to serve “without fear or favour, malice or ill-will”.
Brumell, in his congratulatory remarks aimed at the embattled Minister of Home Affairs, Clement Rohee, somehow committed a “political and administrative suicide”, by stating unequivocally that, himself and the entire Guyana Police Force stand behind Rohee, in whatever he, Rohee, does or undertakes in a disguise as betterment for the Security of the Guyanese populace and improvement in the morale of the Guyana Police Force.
I, in my capacity as Criminal Psychologist and a Researcher, immediately after Brumell made his statement, contacted many persons within the Guyana Police Force and to my surprise, many of them from the Rank and File to Senior Officers, both Commissioned and Non-Commissioned, have stated that Brummell cannot speak on their behalf when it comes to the issues of the embattled Minister.
Brumell tried to justify his utterances when questioned about his unending support for Rohee, even though Rohee is being accused of being inefficient in his watch as Home Affairs Minister, and Brumell said that he has to back Rohee, because as of today, he Rohee is his immediate BOSS.
As Rohee is his Boss, if Rohee orders him, in his capacity as Commissioner of Police to open fire on peaceful, innocent civilians, who are exercising their democratic rights as free citizens to peacefully assemble, whether he would carry out that order?
If Rohee orders him to arrest and prosecute members of his immediate family, he Brumell, knowing that they are innocent, would he obey the BOSS?
Mr. Brumell needs to speak to former Minister within the Jagdeo Regime, Henry Jeffrey, who refused to adhere to Jagdeo’s dictates, due to the fact that he did not see the relevance as a learned person.
I can go on and on and quote cases both internally and externally, whereby subordinates have blatantly refused the orders of superiors, if they, (the subordinates), honestly believe that obeying such orders would be a violation of not only persons rights, but the rights of they themselves.
As someone who has earned an expatriate Masters’ Degree in Human Resource Management, I would like to tell or advice Mr. Brumell that gone are the days when, “Massa makes his dictates”. Now are the days for any organization to function effectively.
There must be inclusive management and right here is where the Guyana Police Force is lacking a major component for improvement, whether socially or morally. It has too many political dictates; officers are not functioning as officers of the Guyana Police Force.
Mr. Commissioner, please stand up and be counted, stand up and be recognized as a stalwart for what is right, die on your feet, and please, do not sell your birthright or your people for some shiny objects of silver and gold, as our fore-fathers are claimed to have done in Africa.
Aubrey Gill Ph.D.

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