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Jun 06, 2012 News
Brigadier (retd) David Granger, Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly, has criticised the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) administration’s failure to act decisively to stamp out the scourge of trafficking in persons.
Citing the US Department of State’s annual ‘Trafficking in Person’s Report’ which “usually gives Guyana an unfavourable ‘Tier 2’ ranking”, Granger called on the Government to reorganize the Guyana Police Force to enable it to enforce the law and comply with international conventions against trafficking.
“The Government must restructure the police in the hinterland and establish more manageable divisions there. More policemen and women must be recruited and equipment and resources must be provided since much of the trafficking occurs in the difficult terrain of mining and logging sites,” he advised.
Granger said that Guyana’s biggest problems with regard to human trafficking are those of poor enforcement by the police and the widespread perception by perpetrators that their crimes will go unpunished.
He pointed to reports in the press about under-age girls being lured into the interior to seek employment and others being found at ‘sex camps’ in the hinterland.
The Opposition Leader recently met with members of the Women and Gender Equality Commission at his office and called on them to adopt an inter-party approach to human trafficking.
He said that it had become clear that, on its own, the government seemed unable to cope with the crime.
Granger warned that the virulence and persistence of the plague of trafficking in persons over the past two decades demands new official attitudes and approaches.
He called on the PPP/C administration to establish a special Commission to investigate human trafficking and to promulgate a comprehensive national counter-trafficking enforcement strategy.
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