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Mar 13, 2012 News
The ten-day period for the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Shalimar Ali-Hack to explain how
she arrived at her decision to recommend that a rape charge be instituted against Police Commissioner Henry Greene expires today.
Up to press time yesterday, government prosecutors had not yet submitted the DPP’s explanation – at least Greene’s attorney had not received it.
Chief Justice (ag) Ian Chang had ordered the DPP’s attorney to lodge with the court all the statements in the case, including those by the Commissioner and those by the woman who claims she was raped by the Commissioner.
However, when the court met on February 27, last, the DPP failed to explain how she arrived at her decision. Instead, she gave the court a reportedly bland statement that did not go down well with the Chief Justice.
The Commissioner is seeking to have the High Court quash the DPP’s recommendation that Mr. Greene be charged with rape.
In presenting the documents as an annex to her affidavit, the DPP did not explain her decision. Justice Chang warned state attorney Naresh Harnanan that he was not interested in the lawyer’s analysis, but rather, he wanted “The analysis of the DPP.”
Harnanan begged of the court ten days to submit the DPP’s analysis in writing.
Once the explanation is submitted, Greene’s lawyers say they are prepared to get going immediately, namely, responding to the DPP’s statement, after which Justice Chang will have to make a ruling.
The Transparency Institute of Guyana called for the government to fire the Police Commissioner if he refuses to resign.
“By indulging in sexual relations with a person of such obvious vulnerability, Mr. Greene abused his position and his authority.
“This clearly amounts to corrupt behaviour by internationally accepted standards, under which corruption is defined as “the abuse of entrusted power for private gain,” the Institute said in a statement.
The woman in the scandal has claimed she was raped, but the Commissioner has insisted that the sex was consensual.
Following an investigation by local and Jamaican detectives, the DPP recommended that Mr. Greene be charged with rape. However, the Commissioner moved to the High Court to have the DPP’s decision quashed.
Last December, the woman, a 34-year-old mother of two, claimed that she was forced into a city hotel and raped by Greene. She said they first met on November 15, 2011, when she went to meet the Top Cop to enquire about the status of an investigation regarding her.
She said that in the process of the investigations, the Police had taken possession of her mobile phone, and she wanted to recover the phone.
The woman claimed that Greene told her to meet him on November 22 to uplift the phone and afterwards he offered her a ride home.
However, she said she was driven to a city hotel where the Commissioner pulled out a gun and waved it at her, causing her to be afraid. At this point, she said she reluctantly exited the vehicle after Greene made a strange demand.
In a statement he gave to investigators, Greene said that when the woman came to meet him at Police Headquarters on November 22, last, it was upon her insistence that they meet “socially” and so ended up at a villa and had sex.
The Top Cop has claimed that he did not have a gun in his possession at the time.
Greene took over responsibility for the Guyana Police Force on July 24, 2006 when then Commissioner of Police Mr. Winston Felix, proceeded on pre-retirement leave. He is the ninth national of Guyana to command the Force since its establishment on July 1, 1839.
Greene joined the Police Force in February 1974.
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