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Jul 28, 2015 Letters
DEAR EDITOR,
I take note of Mr. Carl Veecock’s response yesterday in Kaieteur News to my letter on a recent incident involving a police officer and it is clear that he misunderstood the issue.
The case is very simple.
A police rank was directing traffic in Providence during the recent CPL games. A driver, a civil servant, becoming impatient with the congestion, came out and spoke with rank and during an exchange of words, asked for his name and regulation number. The badge was covered by a safety reflector jacket. Because the civil servant attempted to check the name on the badge, he was arrested, thrown in a police vehicle and escorted to the station where the Divisional Commander reportedly was waiting. The Commander was the one who was upset that the civil servant would dare question his rank.
To compound the issue, when the Commander’s superiors, including the Commissioner of Police, attempted to find out what transpired, he was informed that the rank was slapped by the civil servant.
I am prepared to submit to Mr Veecock a copy of the rank’s statement. At no time, and I stress, at no time did he indicate any slapping took place. Rather, he said that the civil servant merely attempted to see his name and rank on the badge so that a complaint could be made to the police about his behaviour.
Mr Veecock missed the point altogether. The civil servant was to be charged for slapping the rank.
The next point is, the standing orders governing the operations of the police force are clear that traffic officers directing traffic must wear the white sleeves. Their name tags with the numbers must be easily seen. It cannot be covered. Surely the commander knew about this standing order. Further, the commander was at the Providence Station recently where he insisted that he will deal condignly with any rank who has the crown missing from the berets (caps).
It is obvious from the rank’s statement that he was not conforming to regulations.
Further, from time to time, there are inspections of ranks, by even the commander himself. Mr Veecock may want to know that the inspection would not only be about the haircut, or how shine the shoes are. It may involve looking at the badges.
Again, let us not miss the point. The civil servant was arrested based on what? Further, there is the statement of the rank. That itself is an interesting read. There seems to be an entire paragraph added in, raising the question if it was tampered it.
I trust that the matter is closed, but remain prepared to engage again to stand up for Guyanese who have been victimized.
Cobeer Persaud
Please share this to every Guyanese including your house cats.
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