Do not make yourselves easy targets

Mar 27, 2013 News

– Home Affairs Ministry warns

The Ministry of Home Affairs is advising business persons to be mindful with whom they share information about their business and their movements.
The advice comes in the wake of Monday’s attack on businessman, Cecil Gajadhar, by bandits who attempted to relieve him of a substantial amount of cash, while he was sitting in his car, on Camp Street.
Gajadhar is a Foulis, East Coast Demerara businessman who operates a gas station.
In a press statement yesterday, the Home Affairs Ministry said that it is pleased that the bandits were thwarted in executing their nefarious plan and that there was no loss of life or injuries sustained by anyone.
This, the Ministry stated, is in no small measure as a result of the prompt intervention of an alert Police Officer, who was in the vicinity, at the time.
According to the Ministry, the attack on Gajadhar bears a striking similarity, albeit with very different outcomes, to that involving the late Akbar Alli, who, in July 2008, together with his wife, came to the city to conduct business.
On that occasion the couple was confronted by bandits who shot and, regrettably, killed Alli and stole a large amount of cash from them.
With this in mind the Ministry also urged businesspersons to be more alert while moving from place to place with large sums of money.
“The Ministry of Home Affairs and the Guyana Police Force remain committed to the fight against crime, but citizens also have a responsibility to ensure that they do not make themselves easy targets.”
On Monday, Gajadhar referred to an application he made for a licence firearm.
In response the Ministry said that it is apposite to note that having approached the Ministry of Home Affairs in November 2011 with respect to an application for a firearm licence, representation was made by the Ministry, on behalf of Mr. Gajadhar, to the Police.
“The Police are yet to conclude processing Mr. Gajadhar’s application.”
It is to be recalled that the Minister of Home Affairs, in his address at the Annual Conference of Police Officers of the Guyana Police Force, on March 14, 2013, stated, “The Force is tasked with the provision of better citizen security, therefore, more dedicated efforts must be made to reduce the incidents of robberies and other crimes in the country. More use must be made of the images derived from the cameras that have been installed around the city as a tool in identifying suspects who have committed robberies within the view of the cameras.”

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