The Guyana Police Force needs to be more proactive

Apr 10, 2021 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,

Kaieteur News – One important feature of our daily life in a place called Guyana is the understanding that we have to be on the lookout for thieves and bandits. They are all around us, as it were, our country is overrun by them. Our country is infested with them, one particular region being singled out as their headquarters. Region Four and its environs is a regular stomping ground for such persons, who ply their trade with great impunity and I am saying if something definitive is not done about them, then Guyana will become a wasteland where no one – especially the investor – would want to do business here.
Thieves and bandits impede progress because at regular intervals, we hear of the armed holdup and robbery of someone or someone’s business place by armed thugs. The very fabric of our existence crumbles because you are at pains to know who would be the next victim. Very often too, we hear of the shooting death of persons going about their normal daily pursuit only to be gunned down and robbed.
It is unnerving to say the least that you cannot conduct your affairs in peace and quiet without being held up by some thief who actually believes it is his right to forcefully take what you have and convert it to his own use. This is lawlessness at its height. We therefore have to put forward a harmonious operational plan to stem this scourge in our society.
Now one of the most important strategies in crime fighting is to try to get into the mind of the perpetrator, to try to know what makes him successful at his trade. We have to get into his thinking mode and come up with strategies that can preempt his actions. One such action is the element of surprise. Thieves strike where and when you least expect and this factor has enabled them to be successful in their nefarious practice. In this regard, we have to counteract that illegal and deadly act with crime fighting skills of our own that would make theirs ineffective.
Our police have to step up their game; they have to be more proactive. The Force has to step up its patrol and do not wait for things to happen. They have to go after the criminals and get them and their weapons, before they get some other unsuspecting civilian. There must be random stop and search exercises; you see a carload of men, stop them and search them, the message must be nowhere is a safe haven for criminals. I am advocating the setup of temporary roadblocks at varying points and at varying hours; in this way, it will upset the plans of the criminal.
Another is the making of surprise raids at known criminal haunts, the more criminals and their weapons are netted, the more it reduces their capacity to make trouble. Criminals must be made to become nervous wherever they are while restoring peace and stability to our citizens.

Respectfully submitted,
Neil Adams

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