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Ramjattan calls on media to join fight against domestic violence
– touts anger management programmes for schools, communities
In light of the recent spate in domestic murders, Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan is calling on the media to play a more active role in educating the nation on this scourge.
“I want the press to help me in that regard. The press will have to do a number of things in educating too. Not o
Minister of Public Security, Khemraj Ramjattan
nly highlighting that it has happened and next thing the police catches the culprit. But go on educational tours to get people to understand through talk shows…,” Ramjattan pleaded.
According to Ramjattan, there are several factors that contribute to these types of murders, how an individual was raised, depression and “relationships that have gone sour and people do not know how to control anger.”
“People feel you could pick up a cutlass and chop out clean the hands of your spouse, slit throats. It’s a terrible thing and our society is bleeding too much, too often.”
To this end, he said that his ministry is working towards crafting anger management programmes for schools and communities countrywide.
“Anger management might be something we will have to bring to many communities and even teach at schools,” Ramjattan underscored.
Ramjattan in commenting on the brutal slaying of 39-year-old Police Sergeant Kenish Sheriff-Fraser of Number 30 Village, West Coast Berbice by her alleged lover, said that there are no records of reports lodged at the station that this “man was giving her (Sheriff-Fraser) trouble.”
“It’s a terrible thing and our society is bleeding too much, too often and with an intensity these days. The silence of domestic violence is making it more complicated and then our recruits (police) are not with that capability,” he said.
As it relates to the tardy response of officers to domestic violence reports, the Public Security Minister disclosed that some policemen are unaware of how to deal with these situations, since they have only been exposed to rudimentary training on the issue.
Minister Ramjattan noted oftentimes persons would make changes to reports of domestic violence, or recant statements, thus causing hesitation and “hamstringing” among officers.
According to Ramjattan, in some cases, women would refuse to testify when the police had already prepared a file on the matter.
“But indeed, every report ought to be investigated, and that is now the instruction. Once it is sexual, once its beggary, once it is of any sexual nature and domestic violence,” he stressed.
Ramjattan said that he is very pleased that people are coming forward to report domestic violence and even directing complaints to the ministry.
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