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Nov 29, 2015 Letters
Dear Editor,
Several comments in recent editorials and by at least two letter writers indicate that public dissatisfaction with the Guyana Police Force is growing to the point where respect and confidence may be irretrievably lost. To read of the disdain shown the President of the Guyana Manufacturers Association, Mr. Norman McLean by the police policy analyst required a large glass of water to wash down what amounts to an insult to Guyanese.
The analyst who – it seems is quite content to trot out statistics with no reference to the relationship between prevention policies (if they exist) and relevant interventions was woefully out of his depth and brings into question the suitability of the designation “policy analyst.” Mr. McLean was quite rightly concerned about the increasing levels of fear that incidents of crime are causing in the society. The GPF is more inclined to focus on messenger more than on the message and what needs to be done to correct this wholly undesirable situation. Maybe it is as GHK Lall credibly suggests that the crime upsurge is intended to embarrass the government and bring about the return to the previous culture of widespread corruption influenced by organised criminal players.
But another letter writer Michael Anthony is just as direct when he mentions in Guyana Police Force needs to be overhauled now that the same actors are in control of the GPF and is even more scathing in his condemnation of the intolerance of “dissent, criticism and rules” that pervades the hierarchy of the organisation. The appearance that the “top three” has the subject minister enthralled is not helped by Mr. Ramjattan’s seeming reliance on one or two vindictive self-serving individuals with a clear ethnic agenda. Just look at the strategic placement of certain individuals of questionable integrity and ability. Another letter writer argued for a succession plan in the public service and police force, but it seems as if those words fell on deaf ears and passed unseeing eyes.
I am supportive of the call for the President to take definitive action with regard to the administration of the force. In no other country with a runaway crime spiraling out of control would the commissioner and his crime chief be allowed to hide behind nice sounding platitudes reminiscent of Nero and his fiddle. Who has to go on leave must do so with all dispatch or be placed in positions where they can do no more harm to this nation’s psyche. Let us have a shake up now.
Julius Laundry
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