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Complaining against the Home Affairs Minister
Dear Mr President,
I feel obliged to draw to your attention a grave situation developing between Minister Rohee and the Police Top Brass. Like if the public denial of the “ Kick Ass” threats are forgotten, Minister Rohee on Monday, June 10, 2013 during a meeting at his Ministry where his PS and others were present, threatened the Police Senior Officers with whom he had the meeting to withhold their retirement benefits and that they will have to line up and beg for it. This occurred because the Police had an opposing view on an issue he was addressing.
The efforts of the Minister to control Operations of the Guyana Police Force has created great discontent among Senior Officers and caused the Morale of the Police Top Brass to decline significantly. Over the last two years, he is treating Annualised Vacation Leave, which is an entitlement, as handouts. Senior officers have to go to his office and beg for this entitlement and he is only approving half it. He also offers no explanation which adds to the demoralization.
This, Minister has been making a lot of public statements on his efforts to build capacity in the Police Force but in fact, he has been directing the Commissioner on which ranks should attend overseas training and whenever he is displeased of the ranks recommended, he delays his approval for them to attend until the travel dates are passed. This occurred in several cases including fully funded courses, for example, the US funded ILEA course to New Mexico last year.
He has reduced the Community Policing arrangement put in place by Laurie Lewis to mere cosmetic. It is operating parallel to the Police Force with him as Commissioner. There is no synergy or material collaboration between the Police and Community Policing Groups.
He has caused Assistant Commissioner Ramnarine to be grounded for the last two years. There has been no disciplinary matter against Mr Ramnarine, however, he has been going to work and given nothing to do.
He has also been instructing the Commissioner on firearm applications that should and should not be approved and recently caused a convicted drug trafficker, to receive an approval for a 9MM pistol.
Mr President, should this Minister be allowed to continue his unprofessional behaviour, the Guyanese people cannot expect much from our Police Force.
Concerned Citizen
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