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Police transfers are inevitable and necessary

Apr 09, 2014 Letters

Dear Editor,
According to the media, over the last week, some Police Officers are lamenting the fact that there will be transfers in the Guyana Police Force, usually referred to as a ‘shake up.’
The media claims that some officers are not interested in transfers, and some are comfortable where they are, and so on.
This is exactly why it is necessary to have ‘shake ups’ in the Guyana Police Force. Transfers are an important tool of police administration.  No one should feel too comfortable in a given area, as this could breed complacency, and even more dangerous negative possibilities.
If there is complacency and or other possible sinister realities involved, sudden transfers sharpen the ability of the Commissioner to control and manage.
During the Burnhamite era, when the nation was criminalized by the ban on flour and every consumer and food product, some senior police officers I personally know in the Upper Corentyne, were involved in managing their own smuggling rings, while others provided protection to other smugglers.
Sometimes these very officers were used as ‘shake downs’ for their friends.  I know this and saw it, and it happened because many officers were there for too long.  If they were constantly moved, the possibility of such criminal activity would have been limited.
It is known worldwide that transfers of Police leadership (Commanders) are the norm.  It is also imperative that police middle and junior personnel be transferable.
The appointment of a new Commissioner of Police is always a time of excitement and new ideas. If senior ranks were in districts for long periods, then it is time they be switched around; giving way to fresh innovative ideas, and even better, they could be transferred into new other specialty areas, especially to those that they were not exposed to previously, to learn new skills, thereby making them more valuable to the Force, and even enhancing their own skills and talents.
It is usual for profiles of personalities and qualifications to be done, and ranks placed to suit those.
I am always a great respecter of the Police: the honourable, the decent, and the professional ones.  My father was a senior serving police officer and served until retirement.  I have since maintained a close association with the Guyana Police in general, and specialized my studies in Police Technology. I am proud to be a friend of the Guyana Police Force.
Citizens, of Guyana I ask you , in every community, everywhere,  to form groups to help the police.  Be their friends in professionalism, and not create alcoholic parties or corrupt transactions, hoping to enjoy an illicit friendship for personal favours.
Promise and commit to pass on information of criminal activities of anyone, even if it is someone you know: of smuggling, or conspiracies, and even those prone to violence in families.  The Police are the protectors and friends of the people, and in reality the servants of the nation, paid by the people.
I ask the members of the police force, to always remember that they have to win the hearts and minds of the people with positive contributions in the various districts by forming youth groups to motivate and prepare youths, and attending to the old.  It is not unusual for Senior police officers to form such youth groups but they should also visit the old and the infirm in bed, to give a helping hand, a kind word.
The Police MUST be more than mere police enforcers.
I believe, the Police can become more than law enforcers. It is time for that new dispensation.  The New Guyana Police Personality, A force that truly ‘Protect and Serve.’
Roshan Khan
CEO/Founder:  RK’s Security and Business Group.

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