I predict that in the coming days all efforts to discredit the GPF will intensify

Jun 29, 2019 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,

The Guyana Police Force is under attack now more than at any other time in its history, and everyone and his dog is taking a bite. I would like to express a few thoughts about the current happenings. First Deputy Commissioner Alves is being tried and judged in the media. These daily doses of sweeping allegations are dispensed to a populace eager for any and every bit of sensationalism sometimes as an escape from their own realities.
Editor I will be blunt, I do not for one moment believe that Alves uttered words to the effect that the President sent him anywhere. I see a hidden manipulating hand behind all these leakages in much the same way there was a concerted attack upon former Commissioner Felix. And the way I see it is that anyone with ulterior motives especially the disgruntled, would seize and capitalise upon the fact that Alves is a former head of the Presidential Guard, and weave it into their fabric of misrepresentation and outright distortions. I do not see Alves spouting that claim.
In their attempts to discredit and bury the man, his daughter is dragged into the fray with insinuations that he interfered with a traffic investigation when the evidence would show that the deceased child ran into the path of the motorcar driven by Alves’ daughter. The Director of Public Prosecutions recommended an inquest be held into the matter.
Editor, it takes no great stretch of imagination to see that there is an organised attack on the hierarchy of the GPF. One has to wonder if the dots connect to a wider plan to discredit President Granger because it was he who picked the current leadership line-up, or so I was led to believe. During Alves time as Commander of ‘B’ Division, he achieved a significant decrease in serious crimes, a fact that begs the obvious question.
Moving on Editor, there are a few serving senior functionaries who can best be described as disgruntled at the way they were treated after the Coalition assumed office. It is my belief that among them are a few elements whose thirst for vengeance against the Force administration will not be easily slaked. Theirs is a cry for blood, nothing less, and they care not by what means.
As we are on the subject of corruption, we might as well inquire into who allegedly is an abuser or a female inspector stationed on the East Coast; next we might wish to check on who solicits sexual favours from female recruits. We can go on forever, let us inquire into who drove a man wanted for murder (now fighting extradition in the US), to the airport after the crime was committed.
Editor, I predict that in the coming days, all efforts to discredit the GPF will be intensified to sow discord to damage the morale of the officers and ranks, and as a consequence affect their ability to respond to threats of destabilisation. I am all for a professional investigation. I am also all for the adage, which says ‘when you dig a hole for someone, dig one for yourself’.

Yours faithfully
Allister McClean

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