Crimes continue right under the eyes of the city police

Apr 01, 2017 Letters

Dear Editor,
Could someone tell the citizens and visitors to our capital, what in the world is the purpose of the Georgetown City Police Department? For years now they have bragged that they have the same powers, responsibilities and mandate of the National Police.
Each year they are allocated hundreds of millions of dollars earned from the rates of property owners, to which they procure fancy new vehicles, modern radio communication equipment and other elaborate law enforcement equipment, are provided with local and overseas training, the question however is what do they do with all of this? Certainly they are not engaged in crime fighting.
In and around the municipal markets must be considered the most unsafe places in Georgetown. Every day, and more so every night, cars are broken into, shoppers are mugged and persons going about their business are violently robbed. These robbers many of them just teenagers, operate with impunity and without fear of being challenged by the City Police. They often operate on bicycles and are well known characters to the vendors who are sometimes themselves robbed, but are however invisible to the Constabulary.
Quite recently, more than fifty constables were allocated and assigned to the infamous parking meter project so clearly there is no shortage of manpower in that department. Now that the parking meter project has been suspended and the meter maids fired by SCS it would be a good idea for these 50 constables to be reassigned from being henchmen of the parking meter company to being protectors of the citizenry.
How could we talk about promoting tourism in such a crime infested city? How could we talk about wooing investors to Georgetown and Guyana with all of these bandits roaming freely? How could honest hard working citizens be left to the mercy of these marauding bandits? It is time the administrators at City Hall who use these constables exclusively as bodyguards and security at their residences stop talking about making Georgetown a green city and instead start talking make it a safe city.
James Mc Onnell

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