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GPF in serious trouble
Kaieteur News – The Guyana Police Force (GPF) is one of the leading examples of how public institutions have deteriorated over the course of many years. The GPF has rarely been viewed in the cleanest light, but the last five years have seen it drop to its lowest level ever. If there is one State agency on which Guyanese, regardless of their politics, can agree is in the poorest condition, it is the GPF. So poor, that the principled ranks and officers would pack up and leave tomorrow, if there were better options on the outside. We at this paper know, we know that the public knows because we hear the complaints and frustrations frequently articulated, we report on the developments, as they seep out. Now some more is known about how much the GPF is lacking, from Ret’d Deputy Commissioner, Paul Williams. Mr. Williams now wears a new hat, that of a member of the APNU contesting the September 1st elections. From GPF leader to political campaigner is a huge swing, but our focus is more about his representations on the police, than his new role in politics.
Williams was in line to be the Top Cop, but was sidelined earlier, then forced to play the waiting-to-be-retired role, because government didn’t want a professional GPF. We don’t how well Williams would have done as the leader of the GPF, but it is doubtful that he could have done as poorly as those who jumped over him have been. The record of the GPF speaks at high volumes, with the most crucial national protection organization tumbling ever downward, a victim of political manipulations and its own failures and crimes. In the GPF that exists, few are the failures and crimes of its members that undergo competent and genuine scrutiny.
Extrajudicial killing of citizens from almost one section of Guyana’s demographic have been a recurrent theme. They are first covered up, then take unacceptably long to be probed and sent to the court, and often closed out leaving with a sense that true justice has been denied. Because even when there is the appearance of justice delivered, there is the unshakable sense that much is still missing. The massive Matthews Ridge drug bust was, probably, the worst exposé of what is wrong, what is corrupt with the GPF. A haul of 4.4 million tons of cocaine, and the most senior law enforcement agency in Guyana is embarrassingly left out by U.S authorities. Looked at in the best light, it was still a slap without precedent on the face of the GPF, from its top administrators to the government that oversees it. Further, Guyanese of every demographic sector, almost every political persuasion, and every social stratum have shared stories of being stopped and shaken down. In Guyana, this is the local version of stop and frisk, where any Guyanese could be snared in that dragnet. Victims of domestic violence shrink from dealing with the GPF, and so also road users, and some citizens traumatized by crime.
Things are so bad with the GPF that the former deputy commissioner didn’t have to share how it works, or the results of the unprofessionalism, incompetence, and laissez-faire approach to policing. This key institution of the State is in such a shabby way that even the PPPC Government that has control over it, no longer tries to defend it. As long as the GPF responds unquestioningly to the biddings of the corrupt in government, then it seemingly has carte blanche to carry on with its own hustles. This is regardless of the impact on the public, and regardless of the destruction of morale in the entity itself. The few good men and women in the GPF manage not to puke, while trying to keep their hands clean, as a matter of professional survival. The promotion process has been skewered, misused as a reward for government stooges, and transformed into a weapon to deny the competent and deserving. Overnight, the president had his grand solution -2,000 promotions in one shot. What languished untouched for years, now receives presidential authorization four weeks before national elections.
This emphasizes the erratic, seat-of-the-pants, management of the GPF, with its members and the public punished.
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