Are there no local policemen with the ability to oversee this strategic plan?

Feb 03, 2013 Letters

Dear Editor,
I sometimes wonder what is going through the minds of officials when I read some of their public utterances.
The Ministry of Home Affairs has just contracted Capita-Symonds for a six-week consultancy to work on the areas of administration, succession planning, probity and integrity, public relations and communications.
The ministry also intends to employ ten persons for work in a touted Strategic Management Unit. Mr. Rohee – we are told said that a panel of “distinguished persons” will be appointed to determine who are best qualified to fill the advertised positions.
Please understand my puzzlement where those two issues are concerned. Is there no local individual or group of individuals with the capacity to undertake a consultancy of the type that the foreigners are tasked with doing?
Is the Guyana Police Force so bereft of talent that there are no serving officers or former members with the requisite knowledge and skills set to oversee the implementation of the identified strategic plan components? On what basis will those “distinguished persons” selected to pronounce on the suitability or otherwise of candidates to get the job done in an organization with the uniqueness of the GPF?
In a past newspaper article we read of the concern that members of the Force were refused permission to attend UG. Maybe if we were to think hard enough we might remember that several officers were punished with dismissal for having the nerve to pursue a tertiary education.
All of this occurred within the past seven years. Couldn’t those same officers be sought out and offered a consultancy do what we so badly need?
What value-added have those retained retirees brought to the ministry? Minister Rohee needs to understand that there is no harm in having a serious rethink of the entire strategy at this stage if he is to be taken seriously.
Sylvia St Romain

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