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Jul 12, 2014 News
By Leon Suseran
Ranks of ‘B’ Division of the Guyana Police Force yesterday celebrated the 175th Anniversary of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) with a thanksgiving service on the lawns of the force’s Divisional Headquarters at Cheddi Jagan Street,
New Amsterdam.
Present were the heads of the various branches of the force in the division. Officer-in-Charge of Prisons, Mr. Linden Cornette; Officer-in-Charge of Fire, Mr. Compton Sparman; Commander of ‘B’ Division, Mr. Brian Joseph, senior ranks and station sergeants and ranks of the Community Policing Group (CPG) were also present.
Pastor Wilbert Daniels, who delivered the anniversary address called for the image of the force to be rebuilt. He said that the various societal ills call for total involvement; for everybody to get involved. The home should be a part and the school system.”
“As officers, we have got to change the image of our force. We have got to work assiduously to change the kind of mindset and perception people have of the force.”
The pastor voiced his disgust with the daily of crime. “Guyana seems to be in the headlines in a number of ways—homicide, suicides, you name it, and for us a small nation, I won’t feel very proud of my nation in that regard.”
“When it will all end? Where do we go in terms of the moral foundation that our lives ought to be built on?” he asked.
Pastor Daniels alluded to the leaders of today who are not setting the type of examples for our children to follow. “People learn by example and people at all levels in our society today present a very poor level of leadership,” he added.
Everyone needs to take their responsibilities, “very, very seriously in order to curb what is happening in society today.” He charged officers in the GPF “to take personal responsibilities because God has set you there as watchmen and men who will deal with not only service and protection but who will bring direction and control in the area of evil crime and criminal activities around us.”
He also noted the many instances of many Guyanese citizens whose homes are being intruded upon on a daily basis in the forms of robberies and home invasions.
These things should not be, he noted. We all need to be moved by love. If we are going to be able to do justice to humankind, police cannot allow themselves to have that distinction.
Each citizen is tasked with that responsibility, the religious leader added.
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