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When will the slackness at City Hall stop?

Dec 16, 2017 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,
It is just simply beyond my comprehension why things in our capital city have to be so dissimilar and retrograde from other capitals and cities from around the world.
Many Police Departments globally around the world have ‘Lost and Found Divisions’ where citizens can go to recover items that they may have accidentally dropped or absent-mindedly left in public parks, on the roadways, and in other public spaces.
Every piece of property that comes into the custody of these police departments is carefully catalogued and tracked as part of their mandate to preserve and protect property by providing professional, proficient and systematic storage and handling of property that is entrusted to its care.
At the City Constabulary in Georgetown it is the exact opposite, whereby it is the City Police who are losing or misplacing their property and needing the help of the citizens or the national police in recovering what in many instances are restricted and hazardous items that should only be handled by law enforcement agencies.
In the past there have been disappearances of large quantities of ammunition and the puerile excuse given that it was used by a senior officer for target practice; considerable sums of bail monies and fines deducted from errant officers just vanished and never recovered; and more recently firearms have gone missing.
Clearly, this points to gross negligence, sloppy management and extreme dishonesty and the buck must stop at the political and administrative leadership of the Council for these and the many other lapses at the municipality.
And this brings me to the big questions and those are: What will be done about it? Who will be sanctioned? When will the slackness at City Hall stop, and when will the square pegs in the round holes be removed from the Council?
Shanta Singh

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