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Apr 07, 2015 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,
The Guyana Police Force has issued a denial of the description of a roadblock I saw outside the Cove and John station as carried in my column of Thursday, April 2, 2015
I quote from the police statement; “The Guyana Police Force further states that the police roadblock was not withdrawn following the intervention of Mr. Freddie Kissoon and then later replaced as is implied in the article. The roadblock continued in progress until it was assessed to be tactically appropriate to conclude the activity.”
That statement is blatant fiction and an egregious lie.
Here is a second description of what happened. In the car was the Vice-Chairman of the University of Guyana Workers’ Union, Khemraj Narine. Mr. Narine was in the driver’s seat. I was in the passenger front seat. It was my car. In the back seat were Leon Hunt, Carlyle Goring and Delton Dalton. All three are election campaign workers for the Alliance for Change.
The police were on both the southern and northern sides of the public road. Since we were traveling west, the policeman nearest to our car would be the one on the south. He looked into the car as we slowed, then, waved us on, this is, to proceed. We didn’t. I told him he wasn’t wearing an identification badge.
Just then the policemen on the north were stopping vehicles at random. I came out of the car with Hunt and Goring. Narine and Dalton remained seated. I told the officer in charge that he was stopping motorists at random; the police car was not visible to drivers; not even one rank had name and number tags.
An argument ensued for about ten minutes and the police withdrew into a side street that leads to the police station. They drove the car away. We waited to see their departure, then we left. As the ranks were leaving, a woman on a bicycle rode into the street that leads to the station. She violently cussed me down. Hunt shouted at her telling her that maybe she is a prostitute for the police.
If the Commissioner of Police was misled or he doesn’t believe me, I would suggest he have a private word with Narine, Hunt, Goring and Dalton. His subordinate can contact me for their mobile phone numbers. The police officer who rejected my version was either misled or is a barefaced liar.
Let me repeat for readers and the Guyanese public. The roadblock was improper, with only one redeemable feature. It was near to a police station. The police car could not have been seen by oncoming motorists. Drivers were not searched based on reasonable suspicion. The ranks did not have name tags. It was midnight.
After I came home, I rang the station. They told me that the roadblock was in progress as we spoke on the phone. What the police did was to return to their illegal road structure after we left. Inspector Gravesande told me he called it off after I complained over the phone to the ranks at Cove and John. I am assuming that calls to the stations are taped. I am also assuming that commonsense would have dictated that the tapes be listened to before the police rejected any version of any events.
I am not going to insult the Commissioner and his senior ranks by defining for them what the words “remove” or “withdraw” mean. But I will emphasize that the roadblock was removed after we drove up and had an arguments. Or put another way; the police withdrew. I will go further and say that after the removal or withdrawal, the police came back on the street. That then is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
The Guyana Police Force is a troubled institution that has lost the respect and the confidence of the Guyanese nation. The Guyana Police Force is permeated with characters whose competence, immorality and unprofessional conduct and illegal behaviour have destroyed the image of the force. In my humble opinion, only a new government can save the police force from ignominious decline.
Frederick Kissoon

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