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Jan 01, 2012 News
A mother is speaking out against the police, apparently fed up with the manner in which police ranks of the Bartica Police Station are executing their services.
Evette Chung, the mother of Madonna Griffith, a resident of Itaballi located in the Mazaruni River, was enraged when she claimed that police officers on Christmas Day ransacked her daughter’s house and arrested the woman’s 14-year-old brother- in- law over an alleged stolen barrel of diesel.
According to the woman the police were making checks for a barrel of diesel that they claimed was hidden in the yard.
She said she had no difficulty with the ranks performing their duties, but related that her daughter’s home could have been spared the unnecessary damages.
Chung is furious that officers are not considerate when examining the property of public persons.
The mother claimed that her daughter had left Bartica and had travelled to her home to spend Christmas Day with her. She said later that day she received a call that police officers were upturning the home of her daughter and had the woman’s 14-year-old brother- in- law in custody.
Chung said that she dashed to the location to find her daughter’s well decorated Christmas home trashed and almost all new trimmings, disturbed.
She said the newly bought carpet was covered in mud from the officer’s dirty boots. She said the ranks up turned her daughter’s bedroom.
“They turn all she bed upside down as if a barrel of diesel could fit under there.” Chung continued that the officers stormed through her daughter’s kitchen and the attached rooms.
“They have no respect for people’s property,” the woman said.
Chung revealed that after making checks at the station she found the 14-year-old boy in the lock ups.
He had to remain there overnight and after being released the following day, no charges were instituted.
She claimed that the police gave the family no information and they did not comment on the actions of the police who wrecked Griffith’s house.
Kaieteur News after contacting ranks at the Bartica Police Station, was told that more than one person was held in the diesel theft.
The rank claimed that the said barrel was found under Griffith’s house but it was still unclear as to who had placed the barrel there as an investigation is ongoing.
The rank said that all the detained persons are out on $10,000 bail.
He continued that the persons had to appear at the Bartica Magistrate’s Court on Friday last, but due to the incomplete investigation report, the matter will be called again on Tuesday.
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These police are disrespecting the citizens who pay them. I want them to remember that it is the same police brutality that caused the people to turn against them in the 2003-2003. and had them hiding.
Stop this savage behavior towards the public. You Bartica police in 1968 a soldier was assaulted by a group of policemen and they ended up having to barricade themselves in the station. It was only the intervention of Joe Singh that quelled that disturbance.
He made the ranks walk back to Georgetown. I was a child and remember that. Stop this foolishness. Stop attacking the citizens.Knock gat Knock Back.
Since the police found the barrel UNDER the house, can someone in authority please find out from them why they then had to enter the house and destroy its contents. The police department should be made to pay to clean the house and replace anything that was broken or destroyed. Nothing less will be acceptable.
The Guyanese police is in a special class by themselves, with their unprofessionalism, crude and arrogant behavior is part of their modus operandi, it seems that if they don’t behave this way, they would not be in the attention sphere. Of course almost the majority of them is not the recipient of a reasonable education. So what can we expect for now?
HappyNew year to all the readers, Now the Guyana police force is out of control, where in gods name can you hide a barrel of oil under the bed and distroy the worman house, they were looking to see what they the police can steal, and use the the search to do just that, the police force or the goverment should be payint for the damages, and the officer or officers that were in charge should be charge. Until some one in power put a stop tothese untrain officers this would always happen, no respect, also walking through the house with they dirty boots come on, this is a real untrain and out of control police dept./