Chief Constable explains decision to send prosecutor to guard incinerator

Feb 02, 2019 News

It appears that the decision to send a prosecutor of City Hall to help provide security service at the Princes Street incinerator site was no big deal.
According to Chief Constable Andrew Foo, the decision to send Corporal Quacey Baveghems to the site where a number of derelict vehicles are parked was in keeping with the rotation practice of the City Constabulary.
In a Guyana Chronicle piece, Foo and other City Hall officials were critical that the matter had hit the press and they had not been contacted.
There were also indications that the City Constabulary was more concerned with the fact that story had been published and that Baveghems may have spoken.
The transfer of Baveghems would have been a major step-down for a man who once prosecuted scores of cases for the M&CC and who testified last year before the COI headed by Justice

“Rotated”: Quacey Baveghems

(Ret’d) Cecil Kennard.
His testimony would have been crucial to the findings of the COI which called for a number of M&CC officials to be penalized and investigated for possible criminal charges.
According to insiders, Baveghems was sent off one week after he testified in October.
He has reportedly since asked to meet the new mayor, Ubraj Narine, to reverse the posting.

The prosecutor had been with the City Council for 12 years, serving in different capacity including heading the Traffic Management Unit and Anti-Crime Unit.
Baveghems came to limelight last year after he reported a senior Constabulary official for sexual abuse of a teen prisoner.
However, he was sacked by a City Hall official who was under fire for several things. The rank had accused Clifton Pellew of sexual assault. Pellew is before the courts.
Baveghems allegedly stumbled on to Pellew during the act with the teen and reported it to the Chief Constable Andrew Foo. He submitted a statement.
Pellew was eventually dismissed. Shockingly, so too was Baveghems.
Pellew was later reinstated and sent on administrative leave. Baveghems was eventually reinstated.
He later testified to the COI that ranks were forced to buy their own uniforms.
He also complained that dues for the National Insurance Scheme and tax deductions were not being remitted.
Last week, the Local Government Commission sacked Town Clerk, Royston King, as part of the recommendations of the COI findings.

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