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Police emblem on Top Cop’s vehicle…“The Commissioner is the best person to ask about that” – Rohee
“I don’t know if there is anything wrong with it, but as far as I can recall it is only the President and the Chief of Staff of the GDF (Guyana Defence Force) that have that kind of facility and I think the best person to ask is the Commissioner of Police.”
Commissioner of Police (ag) Seelall Persaud
Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee
This was the assertion of the Home Affairs Minister, Clement Rohee on Monday, when asked if it is legal for the vehicle of acting Commissioner of Police, Seelall Persaud, to be wearing the force’s emblem as opposed to a number plate.
Rohee said that since he assumed the post as Home Affairs Minister, he has never witnessed any vehicle used by the Commissioner of Police, bearing the force’s emblem.
During last week, a photograph with Persaud’s vehicle, bearing the force’s emblem instead of a number plate, started to circulate, and a number of persons including senior police officers have been questioning this new move.
“I have never seen something like this since I am working in the Police Force, and that is for the past two decades. No Commissioner of Police ever had the emblem, but I guess this one is special,” a senior officer related yesterday.
Another senior Officer who requested that his name be withheld said that when he first saw the photograph he was surprised, and so were his colleagues.
“I read the papers every day and I didn’t know anything about the force emblem on that vehicle, so when I saw the photograph, I was more than surprised because that was out of the blue… My colleagues also saw the picture and showed me,” the officer said.
Former Police Commissioner and A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) Member of Parliament, Winston Felix, in an invited comment, explained that all vehicles imported must be registered with the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA).
He related that the force’s emblem on the Commissioner of Police’s vehicle cannot be a registration.
Felix said for that to happen, there has to be a change in the law to accommodate what the present Commissioner of Police is doing.
According to the former Top Cop, the law has not been changed as far as he is aware.
The Commissioner’s vehicle with the force emblem.
The Army has a special licence plate and this was approved by Parliament a couple of decades ago.
When this newspaper tried to contact the Commissioner yesterday, all calls went unanswered.
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