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Police need assistance in fighting crime- Ramjattan -understaffing can affect effective crime control
In the wake of what appears to be a rise in criminal activities around the city, Minister of Public Security, Khemraj Ramjattan, has in
Minister of Security, Khemraj Ramjattan
dicated that the Guyana Police Force needs assistance from other bodies to effectively fight crime in and around the city.
He was responding to questions on effective strategies needed to combat the rise in criminal activities in Georgetown, particularly around the Stabroek Market area.
Minister Ramjattan said that the Guyana Police Force has been doing all it can to curb crime around the city but may not have been able to completely eradicate crime due to an existing situation of inadequate human resources in the Guyana Police Force.
He added that persons are reluctant to join the force because of the salary scale and other reasons. As such that leaves the entity at a disadvantage of stemming incidents of criminal activities.
The minister said that the City Constabulary is expected to play a major role in assisting the police with controlling crime in that area, and are expected to ensure that around the clock security measures are in place.
Minister Ramjattan is also urging business officials to refrain from walking around with large cash amounts for business transactions, but instead to resort to the use of cheques to avoid becoming ready targets for criminals.
The Stabroek Market area has now become a haven for criminal elements who stalk their prey by night robbing them of valuables. The bandits have been working in gangs led by females who pounce on unsuspecting intoxicated males, pretending they owe them for sexual favours (the girls) never provided. Their male counterparts would move in after, rough up the victims and rob them of valuables.
That aside, groups of men congregate at night outside the perimeter fence of the Parliament Buildings, in the company of female sex works, and use that location as their holding grounds to rob persons.
Foreign nationals have been robbed in the very area, and the bandits have just recently turned their attention to innocent food vendors, trying to make an honest dollar by night.
Sloppy Police Officers
While the Police Crime Chief has been maintaining that they were in control of the crime situation at the Stabroek Market area, more and more persons are being robbed in the vicinity. In as much as the public is appealing for the police to enhance security in the area, police officers were seen standing on the Stabroek, Demico House walkway just close to a group of men who were loitering in that location.
Credible sources have informed that the bandits gang up around a confectionary stand on the walkway, yet the police have failed to remove that stand even though ranks searched the owner and found several ice picks, scissors, and dangerous weapons on his person.
The sex workers and their partners in crime continue to operate outside the Parliament Buildings in full view of police ranks and nothing is being done.
Also missing are the police vehicular patrols. They have decreased by nights, and criminal elements that were bundled into trucks and arrested are seen back out and parading the said areas.
What is the City Constabulary doing?
While sources at the City Constabulary have indicated that they were clearing the area of criminal elements and ‘scam card tricksters,’ the men are operating in the full view of some ranks, extracting money from citizens under false pretence.
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