I don’t want the Office of Professional Responsibility to speak to me, period!

Sep 07, 2014 Letters

Dear Editor,
Last week, for three consecutive days, the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) of the Guyana Police Force phoned me. On two occasions, I was driving therefore was legally prevented from speaking to them. They caught up with me on Thursday. I was polite but declined to continue the conversation. I gave my reason
The OPR wanted my cooperation in an investigation arising out of my article of August 21 captioned, “Motherly love, motherly sex in the police force.” It looked at allegations made by some folks in Plaisance against some junior ranks operating out of the Sparendam station.
I can’t recall the name of the officer from the OPR that called on these instances but I think it may have been Hercules. I told Mr. Hercules that I will not be a willing party to any disciplinary intentions aimed at the lower ranks. I was pellucid that the conspiratorial actors are the senior ranks themselves. I indicated that my participation was conditioned on the probe’s jurisdiction taking in the senior ranks at Sparendam.
He couldn’t agree and with that our dialogue ended abruptly with my plea that he should not contact me in the future. I may not be an important person in Guyana but I do have my time fully allocated. In other words I do not have time to participate in any masturbatory games with the OPR. Senior police ranks are into games and I don’t have time for such nonsense
I have made serious accusations against junior ranks at several police stations as part of my human rights work and to date not one of them have been disciplined or reassigned. Their superior officers just couldn’t be bothered. The latest incident involved well known social activist Leonard Craig. It happened a month ago
Craig called to say that he was at the Leonara Police station on the bench for a minor traffic offence. I examined the police force’s schedule of ticketable offences and found out that what Craig was accused of carried a ticket. Why was he on the bench for over two hours? I called the traffic chief. He agreed to intervene providing that Craig’s offence was ticketable. He then called me to say that he was informed that indeed the offence was ticketable and Craig would be out right away
One hour passed and Craig was still at the station. The traffic chief’s instruction was ignored. I spent one hour trying to get Sergeant Fraser at Leonara, the man who ordered Craig on the bench. My phone credit ran out. I borrowed Dr. David Hinds’ phone since we were together in Georgetown having lunch. I got through to Fraser, told him the traffic chief had intervened so why was Craig still at the station. Fraser said to me; “You called the traffic chief, I is a police and the traffic chief is a police too.”
I then called Superintendent Amsterdam, Fraser’s boss and the bossman at Leonora station to register my disgust at Fraser’s unprofessional attitude. Amsterdam said he will investigate. The same Amsterdam we complained to in 2012 when his juniors at Parika station was defying a court order and moving vendors. Those ranks are still at Parika. Sergeant Fraser is still in charge of traffic at Leonara.
All the junior ranks I have complained against the past two years are still at their assigned base. Some of the most irresponsible and incompetent policemen are the seniors themselves. Going to them for redress is like putting Dracula in charge of the blood bank
Frederick Kissoon

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