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This crime affords the Commissioner a glorious opportunity to rebuild confidence in the force

Mar 15, 2015 Letters

Dear Editor,
So our President, His Excellency Donald Ramotar at the Annual Police Conference, has called on the Police to find the killers of Courtney Crum-Ewing.  He went further to talk about the ‘intellectual authors’ who may be behind this dastardly act of assassination.
As I understand it, a credible Police Operation in such circumstances and given their mandate would allow the police to follow every lead, and pursue all possibilities thoroughly.  The police therefore ought not to ignore the following:
First, Courtney has for weeks been picketing about the Attorney General Mohabir Anil Nandlall, Kaieteur News conversation, which anywhere else would have seen the back of our Attorney General, but this is Guyana – Courtney’s main focus was in front of the Attorney General’s Office.
Second, we ought not to ignore the aggressive nature of Nandlall’s Kaieteur news reporter conservation, threats are implicit. The Police ought by now, to have at least invited the Attorney General to say if the young man’s protests had angered him and may have driven him to the point where he may have wished to be rid of the nuisance or embarrassment caused by Crum-Ewing’s protest.  After all, this is a normal human reaction.
In any murder you look for all possible motives. Who may have disliked the victim, etc, but even as Standard Operational Procedure, the best of our knowledge, this has not been done.  Then there is the haughty loud mouthed gentleman at a high State Office who daily threatens people who criticize the PPP establishment, and the fact that young Crum-Ewing reported to the police that he had been threatened by this individual and is it true the Police have been monitoring his movements and what is the relationship to the equipment stolen when previous unknown persons broke into his minibus.
But am I wrong to believe that these ‘sacred cows’ are beyond the reach of the Commissioner of Police and his top ‘brass’?  These big ones could not be the intellectual authors of Courtney’s assassination.
Mr. Commissioner, this incident affords you a glorious opportunity to make a reality of President Ramator’s Plan to rebuild the confidence in the police force.
We all, in the interest of Guyana, would like something done to deal with the flagging faith the majority of citizens have in our police, anywhere where there is a loss of confidence in the main law enforcement agency, the society is on the brink of disaster or can implode.
As an aside, don’t have your Commanders ‘solve’ this murder by picking up some poor chaps from Albouystown, Agricola, East and West Ruimvledt, Buxton and Tiger Bay and administer the torture, which we unhappily associate with some of your promotable ranks – then announce a ‘confession’ end of story and the ‘intellectual author’ or authors’ enjoy the satisfaction that they are immune from all Police action.
Later we’ll provide you a list of persons who ought to be charged for a number of crimes, but are still walking free.  I write in honour of Courtney, and all patriots.
 Hamilton Green, J.P.

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