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‘Inhumane treatment’ of detained cops…Detective’s wife to meet Police Complaints Authority Chairman
A detective’s wife, who claimed that her husband suffered a nervous breakdown while being detained under inhumane conditions, is to meet with Chairman of the Police Complaints Authority, Justice Cecil Kennard.
She made this disclosure even as she said that her spouse underwent several hours of treatment at a hospital yesterday, after being unable to sleep and showing further signs of stress.
A section of the cell in which the ranks were detained.
He was subsequently released from hospital but is to undergo further psychiatric treatment. The detective and another colleague remain on open arrest, but he was allowed to go home because of his mental condition.
“Looking at him, my heart is crying out. The (Police) Welfare Department is aware of his condition and have my contact numbers, but we have not heard from them,” the woman said.
“He has done so much for a job he loves. I feel that my husband is being victimised for personal reasons, which his superiors are aware of. I am calling on the authorities to look into this matter, since the Police Force is responsible for what he is going through.”
In a brief telephone interview yesterday, Kennard indicated to Kaieteur News that he would listen to the woman’s complaints. The PCA Chairman said that he had never received any previous complaints about the detention facilities at the Tactical Services Unit (TSU).
“We know that the prisons in this country are in a terrible condition,” he acknowledged.
One recently detained rank described the TSU detention facility as being “worse than the lockups at the Brickdam Police Station.”
The cell reportedly has no lights, but two-bug-infested mattresses; it is sometimes partially flooded due to a leaking roof and has no washroom facilities.
The Detective Constable and another colleague allegedly spent three days in the cell. They were reportedly detained after it was alleged that they released a suspect in the theft of some $370,000. However, some sources have alleged that neither rank has been informed about the reason for their detention. A colleague suggested that this may have added to the ranks’ emotional trauma.
Kaieteur News was told that on Wednesday, February 25, the two detectives, and a third rank, were informed by a female station sergeant that a passenger, who had travelled from Mahdia, was suspected of stealing $370,000 from another passenger.
The ranks reportedly then stopped the vehicle at Wismar, while one of the detectives searched the suspect and other passengers. However, he failed to find the cash.
Nevertheless, the ranks allegedly took the suspect to the Wismar Police Station. The detective’s wife said she was told that the female Station Sergeant told the ranks: “If yuh ain’t find nothing, let the man go he way,” and her husband’s colleague released the passenger. Another Sergeant reportedly saw when the suspect left the station.
According to the wife, while her husband was at home, he received a call from a colleague who said that police ranks were searching the other detective’s home, since it was suspected that the detective had confiscated the stolen money.
She said her husband insisted that he was present when his colleague had searched the passengers and that nothing was found.
The woman said that about an hour later, her husband received instructions to report to a senior rank at the Mackenzie Police Station.
The wife said she accompanied her spouse to the station, where he was informed that he was being placed under close arrest.
She alleged that none of the senior officers told her husband why he was being arrested.
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