K/News staffer accuses cops of extortion...Video footage contradicts cops’ denial

K/News staffer accuses cops of extortion…Video footage contradicts cops’ denial

Sep 25, 2016 News

Days after denying stopping and fleecing a Kaieteur News staffer of $5000 over a traffic offence, video footage has come to light, contradicting the denial by the cops.

K/News staffer,
Harry Brijmohan

The footage showed the staffer, Harry Brijmohan, sitting in the tray of an unmarked vehicle with his motorcycle, as it drove west along the road that leads to Providence New Scheme, East Bank Demerara (EBD) between 15:20hours and 15:35 hrs.
This new development would contradict the statements given by four policemen who claimed that they never saw Brijmohan or stopped him on August 17, last.
Two Saturdays ago, Brijmohan was stopped by five policemen after he was caught riding his motorcycle without a helmet.
The ranks searched him, demanded his documents and then informed him that they had to charge him and place him before the court, despite his offence being a ticket-able one. He was told that he could have only made a phone call after 72 hours.
“One of them tell me that I should have ride away, that his gun rusty because long he ain’t use it.”
Brijmohan said that the men placed his motorcycle at the back of their vehicle and informed him that he had to go to the station.
”They drive out to the junction. While driving, the two at the back telling me that I gun get charge and then they say that I can do something before I reach,” Brijmohan said.
He claimed that one of the men asked him if he had money to which he responded in the negative but another rank interjected and said that he was lying. Apparently when the motorcyclist reached for his licence in his wallet, the rank saw that he had money on him.
”They say that once I reached at the station then I can’t do anything but I can do something before I reached and I said I got $3,000 and then they say no, is five of them and I got to give them $5000. I said no and they telling me that I got no other option,” Brijmohan recalled.
He said that while he was bargaining with the two police ranks, trying not to hand over all his cash, another rank said that they had not drunk anything for the day.
In the end, he handed over $5,000 to the ranks and was allowed to go home.
When Brijmohan’s story first appeared in the media, ranks from the force’s Office of Professional Responsibility took a statement from him.
On Thursday, he positively identified four of the ranks since one was on leave.
While they were indeed patrolling the in area, they claimed that they never saw the K/News staffer two Saturdays ago. But the video footage that has surfaced supports Brijmohan’s story.

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