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Sep 08, 2021 Letters

Dear Editor,

A Police Force is ultimately responsible for our security. A professionally driven Police Force will give citizens confidence in its working, thus ensuring optimum co-operation between citizens and the Police. It is a professional Police Force that produces its aura of confidence.
The letter written by K. Juman-Yassin, AA, and published in today’s 6th September 2021, Kaieteur News is instructive, and I support fully Juman-Yassin’s concerns and recommendations. However, he failed to deal fully with the contortions of the Police Service Commission and the Government.
This is a clear effort by a Government whose obsession, whose belief is that it is their divine right to micro manage and control every facet of society and our lives. Unless this issue is brought to the fore and citizens speak up, even if the proposals by Juman Yassin are implemented will be of little value.
We have seen the fracturing of our police between 1992 and 2015. During that period, we saw a one thousand percent, yes one thousand percent increase of police deaths, the phenomenon “Phantom Gangs”, the “Death Squads” and a new elite known as the “Black Clothes Police”. A mature Government, a truly concerned administration should appreciate the value of a professional non-politicised Police Force. The discussion about our security must centre on this.
The bicycle and motorcycle gangs will dwindle, if we re-introduce National Service and ensure that our oil bonanza filters down to our young people. A well-organised National Service will also provide discipline and personnel for their Police Office Corp and ordinary ranks.

Sincerely
Hamilton Green, Elder

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