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Police urged to do better, to win back civilians’ trust

Aug 25, 2016 News

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Report, sourcing information from the Government of Guyana’s Justice System Strategy 2006–2010, stated that an estimated 90 percent of prosecutions are unsuccessful, making the Guyana Police Force (GPF) ‘the least-trusted institution in the country’.
Weighing in on the issue yesterday was the Minister of Public Security, Khemraj Ramjattan who was at the time at the launch of Component One of the Citizen Security Strengthening Programme (CSSP).
Ramjattan was asked to comment on the aforementioned analysis in the report to which he replied, “That is quite true, and I’ve learnt of that a number of years ago,”
However, Ramjattan said that as Minister, he will be making attempts to ‘try to win back the support’ so that the GPF can be better.
“I respect the State Department’s report and will be urging my police force and other enforcement arms to do better in relation to the perception that they are so badly distrusted. I know of situations… only yesterday a couple of people calling the Minister and telling him about their experiences on the road…The conduct of some of the policemen leaves a lot to be desired and that is what is causing people, members of the public, not to have that great attraction to them. But we have to do lots more, and the training exercise going on will be aiming to ensure that there is better perception index of police,” the Minister said.
Ramjattan also pointed out that the GPF is about 1,000 ranks short.
“You see, we have a problem, when we graduate some more… a couple that get through with their visas and so on, they migrate. Some get better jobs, because the salaries of police are not that nice and some of them after six (or) seven months break off, because they feel that the job is too hard for that salary and so on,”
The Minister said that he will be urging police ranks to put their best foot forward to win back the trust of civilians. He added that through the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)’s support for the Implementation of the Citizen Security Strengthening Programme, the police will be supported in areas of managerial and leadership skills.

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