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Aug 25, 2014 Letters
Dear Editor,
When I joined the Guyana Police Force a little over a decade ago I never thought that I would have been used the way me and my colleagues are being used today.
I joined the Force to fight crime and to maintain traffic lawlessness; I never expected to be used a s a security guard. If I wanted to do security guard work, I would have joined the countless private security services that from day to day advertise vacancies.
My point is that the organization I joined is being frequently used to do security work for a number of private entities, which pay huge sums to the force.
My understanding is that ranks who are assigned to these duties are to be paid a fee which is separate from the meager monthly salary we receive.
But this has not been the case as within recent times, we the ranks have not received any money, while our counterparts have been paid handsomely.
Take for example, the recent Limaol Caribbean Premier League matches which were held at the National Stadium, Providence.
The tournament has come and gone and we the police ranks are still to receive the payment that we were promised.
Other events have come and gone and more are still to come and there is no indication when we will be paid.
Although we know that the fee will be meager, some of us are forced to leave our homes and families to work these extra duties to back up our monthly salary but what is the sense of doing so when you are not receiving what is due to you.
The Big Ones who sit in their offices at Eve Leary get the big kick-backs and we who get the crumbs have to beg for it after working our backs off to ensure that patrons enjoy themselves in a safe environment and the promoters get their big profits.
On many occasions we are not provided with even a soft drink for standing on our feet for an entire night taking in the dew.
Then when we get off the duty in the wee hours of the morning, we the ordinary police ranks have to make our way home by whatever means we can.
How insensitive is an organization that often boasts that it has our welfare at heart?
Whenever we are reluctant to work at these events, we are bullied and threatened with disciplinary action all because the police force has already collected the promoters’ money.
Mr. Editor, I think that many Guyanese know that a lot of the junior ranks in the Guyana police force are intelligent people with better qualifications that most of those at the top. We are not stupid and we do not deserved to be used in the way we are being used for the benefit of those at the top, who sleep comfortably with their families while we brave rain and dew to fill their pockets.
These same big ones often speak to us as if we are their children. They even demand that we do their personal errands like selling their bar be que tickets for their private enterprises.
If you don’t do their bidding, you are transferred. When will this vindictiveness stop?
Frustrated policeman
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