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Jun 03, 2015 Letters

Dear Editor,
I am not a Facebook fan but to say that I am horrified that someone would make the type of racial slur that a police sergeant is alleged to have posted on that social media with respect to the recent flooding, is putting it mildly and brings into focus the commitment of the Minister of National Security to reform the Guyana Police Force.
Since the GPF through the immediate past Minister of Home Affairs, announced that it was going through a process of reform one would like to know just how far along the force has gone.  If that Facebook posting is confirmed then that body has gone absolutely nowhere.  The fact that police ranks are still behaving unprofessionally suggests that old attitudes and behaviours still prevail and the reform slogan is just that a slogan.
Editor, up to now the ordinary citizens have not been told what to expect of this reformed GPF; we are still to be informed whether the police really understand our security needs.  One wonders if the police even know how to conduct a community assets assessment to better access the available skills in order to better serve communities in a real collaborative way.
All we have received thus far are hollow statements made conveniently to appease a populace under siege from criminal elements and criminality.
Guyanese are fed up with a police force that is doing absolutely nothing to improve the way police business is conducted.  Prior to acceding to the new government coming into office we were regaled with the then opposition’s concerns about crime, police misconduct and the works.  Now that the monster is to be confronted we are still to hear that the issue of the two torturers is resolved; the ‘F’ Division Headquarters is now in the interior; about what the reform plan has achieved.
It all comes back to smoke and mirrors and that is what we can expect in coming days because the truth of the matter is that no one is really serious about reforming a body that everyone loves to use and abuse.
Edmund Syfox

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