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Dear Editor,
it’s with great amusement I read the extracts from the Acting Police Commissioner but I am somewhat at a loss. I believe he’s probably just making a speech to impress people who show an interest.
Here we have a acting (for quite a while) Commissioner who is quite vocal in the media and from all indication, seems to have a no nonsense attitude to the police officers. He seems very committed to ridding the force of embarrassment.
But for me, someone who would transfer senior officers whom I believe are very efficient based on my observations because they wouldn’t turn a blind eye on lawlessness, is just a waste of space in the media.
The public is hearing that officers responsible for causing damage to the force vehicles will have to pay. We all know that many officers are very much into taking bribes, so, would any investigation be carried out on their financial position whilst they are paying to see if the repayment affects them?
Almost at any police station you go to make a report, if you don’t have taxi money to take the officers to and fro, don’t go because the force never has a vehicle available.
For the longest while we have been hearing about the force going after members of the force with tinted vehicles but it seems the instructions are not effective beyond the lips that issue the directive because to date, many officers in and out of uniform could be seen traversing with private vehicles all over.
Some even park around or in the police station compound.
Bribes are still being paid to officers a lot but are they afraid of the warnings being issued? I guess not even though the warnings are being issued regularly and many are being caught.
Apart from all his glorious speeches, I haven’t really seen any plans being proposed by the Acting Commissioner to combat crime especially the worrisome robberies being committed daily at the parks, especially at the Stabroek Park. These crimes are being committed blatantly in view of many people and not a thing is being done.
I guess it’s impossible to assign plainclothes officers to these parks. Let them talk to the taxis and minibus operators and I am sure some of them would gladly point out some of the regular crooks and their gangs. Simply monitor them until they commit their crime.
Stabroek area is not a complicated place. If the main entrances are monitored, I am quite sure criminals would be caught because there are no exits these criminals use after committing a crime.
Similarly, the Chief constable is complaining and passing over the responsibility but responsibilities also seem to be lacking of effective leadership. The City Police seem to be casting the blame on others when in fact, they seem incapable of performing their duties.
For many years people complain of the illegal activities being conducted under the gates of the Eastern Sides. One can see buying and selling of stolen articles, there is the use and sale of illicit substances and in some case robberies are being committed.
Can’t these two men—the Acting Commissioner and the Chief Constable— work together and try eradicating this daily embarrassment, because the last time I checked, tourists seem to be the main attractions for these criminals.
Sahadeo Bates
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