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Someone is a fraud, I wonder who?
DEAR EDITOR,
The adage, never put a boy to do a man’s job comes to mind. In the same breath, I say, do not put a doctor to do law enforcement.
Mister Mark Devonish spouted a lot of drivel about the UK and accountability (KN November 17, 2013).
The brave members of the Guyana Police Force, also those who made the ultimate sacrifice and other competent public-spirited citizenry that were there, did so unselfishly.
No one ordered us to go into the kill zone. We were there to prevent a deranged person from taking more innocent lives. Should we have gone home or to the Police Quarter Master Stores to get protective vests? Should we have advised an unhinged Mr. Kanhai to remain where he was and do nothing until we return with bulletproof vests?
For your information, Mr. Devonish, bullet-resistant vests are recommended to be only used for five years. Having on some of those time-expired items would be giving the person wearing the vest a false sense of security which would be very fatalistic.
I know absolutely well, what a warhead would do entering my epidermis. That thought came after Mr. Kanhai’s killing spree was stopped permanently.
Do not attack the Commander, he was directing his subordinates in an effective way, he was in the kill zone instructing his officers!
If one cannot stand the heat, they should stay out of the kitchen!
Dr Devonish mentioned my name 11 times in his missive; I do hope any future mention of my name does not have physiological hallucinations on his well-being.
S.W.A.T is needed in Guyana, but it will be an uphill battle. For the Government cannot do so without support for the Firearm Amendment Bill, coupled with cuts the combined opposition has inflicted.
By the way, I am deemed to be a real security specialist (not acting) and decided to do a Google check on you because your first two puerile analogies were so ridiculous! Strange, I did not see your name listed.
A Google check of ‘Harold Hopkinson Guyana’ got 91,300 results in .29 seconds, for Harold ‘Topgun’ Hopkinson there were 7,350 results (0.37 seconds). Someone is a fraud, I wonder who? For your information, my earned nickname was given to me by a former sport editor of the Stabroek News around 1994.
My good friend and mentor the deceased, retired Commissioner of Police, Laurie Leland Lewis, DSS, DSM, said at his retirement parade, “If you do not blow your own horn no one will blow it for you”.
I am out of breath and still smiling!
Harold ‘Topgun’ Hopkinson
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