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Apr 28, 2016 Editorial, Features / Columnists
Some of the developments in the criminal investigations have made it clear that for the greater part, unless the police collaborate with the public, then there would be hindrances to its crime solving capabilities.
And it is not that this is a secret. What is often wrong is the inability of some ranks to communicate with the public. All too often one gets a report that a police rank is extremely rude to a member of the society. People talk about going to the police station to file a complaint or to make a report and the response of the police leaves a lot to be desired.
The Guyana Police Force itself recognizes that there is a severe weakness in some of its ranks in the area of communication. Indeed, some people cannot verbalise their thoughts, but for some it could be a case of ranks becoming arrogant as soon as they don the uniform. And it is this that the police must overcome.
This week they were able to solve a rash of cold murders because there were police ranks who were prepared to listen to members of the public. We shudder to think what might have happened had a woman not caught the ear of the police rank to whom she reported.
Hers was a case of living in plain view with a cold-blooded murderer not far from the scene of a triple murder. This killer returns to his home all bloodied and tells his wife that he had just killed a woman and her two children. This happened back in 2008, almost a decade ago.
There is a saying that a secret is a huge burden so imagine this woman walking around with this burden of knowing that she must share a bed with a killer. This woman must have gone to the funeral of the woman and her two small children, knowing that it was her husband who put them in the cold grave.
Life is full of twists and turns. This killer continues to abuse his wife. Reports are that one day he beat and stripped her naked then caused her to parade in the open. It takes either a very brave man or a stupid man to entrust his life to a person and then ill-treat that person.
So this man’s wife, having been beaten to the extent that she believes that her spouse would kill her too, makes a report to the police.
There is another case of a keen policeman making an arrest in another cold murder case. They are investigating the destruction of a home by fire. Two people died so the police believe that it is a case of murder. Something happens and it soon turns out that a man who had committed a murder for hire had been picked up for questioning.
The investigators now say that neither of the two people who have been charged with these two murders was ever a suspect. The investigations by the police never led them in that direction. This is strange since one of the people would have had to hear the screams of a dying woman.
And so it comes to the noticeable hike in the number of cases solved. We know that the British and the Americans have been training the local police in investigation techniques. Yet that is not enough to explain this rash of crime solving. But then again person to person communication must have been a part of the programme.
In some societies the police go out of their way to engage the society in discussions and in this manner get valuable information. Ours may need to do the same. Let us have a meaningful reintroduction of the beat duty cop.
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