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Dec 23, 2017 Letters

Dear Editor,
The Guyana Police Force is corrupted from the top to the bottom and it truly needs cleaning up and overhaul. None of the senior ranks is suited to become the next police commissioner, as they are all set in their individual ways, not team players.
They lack essence to serve the people freely through their deep-seated corruption.
In Kaieteur News, December 17, 2017, an article titled “Top Cop concedes police ranks should not have been in Parliament,” and quoting “acting top cop” David Ramnarine, “It would be good for us to contemplate that in certain circumstances necessity knows no law.” How ironic is that!
Ramnarine should say the Guyana Police Force (GPF) “knows no law or boundary.” It is an entity where anything goes, abusing discretionary powers and damn adverse ramifications or repercussions, and they “know no law or boundary” is correct because the police are the thieves, murderers and criminals.
There are countless examples of police impermissible activities, so there is no need to discuss them. Although Kaieteur News is the mouth-piece of free speech and expression in this backward-Third World country, too frequently your newspaper shuns letters whenever they implicate the corrupt and contemptuous behaviour of senior police officials, politicians, and friends of this newspaper.
But it comes a point when a media outlet must take a position on reporting what a cesspool the Guyana Police Force (GPF) and members of parliament are.
Ramnarine failed the people and still failing the people and Kaieteur News must stop protecting him. The recent disrespect in Parliament by the PPP/C is a shameful act under the Speaker’s watch, and Ramnarine is totally out of place when he indicated that “… police ranks should not have been in Parliament.”
He has to be joking! The Speaker summoned the Sergeant-at-Arms who failed to remove the out-of-order “Bishop” Juan Edghill (and, a “Bishop” acting like a prostitute who didn’t get paid for services rendered). The police failed to assist the Sergeant-at-Arms. The top cop had no contingency in place for dealing with situations where members of parliament behave like dogs in heat.
Then the recent Santa Claus trying to present Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo an Oxford Dictionary in Parliament should have been denounced as a gross security breach. Dr. Barton Scotland should have had the individual arrested.
This could not be viewed by Ramnarine as a “prank.” Has Ramnarine viewed tapes to ascertain who that perpetrator was? I am sure he did not in the same manner how he failed to view the tape that was given to him regarding the alleged plot to assassinate the President.
Ramnarine’s excuse for two plainclothes policemen at the press table in Parliament weren’t properly briefed is nothing but passing the buck as him never being wrong.
Action speaks volumes and countless cases of police corruption have been reported, including through myself, and Ramnarine has done nothing.
How much longer should the public watch the circus of the top cop, GPF, and Members of Parliament?
No name supplied

(Editor’s note: We at Kaieteur News do not shun letters nor do we protect anyone because there are no sacred cows).

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