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Mar 07, 2017 News
…as new courses launched
In an effort to stamp out corruption and reinforce the public’s trust in the Guyana Police Force, several new courses were launched yesterday.
The courses include training in Station management, Train-the-trainer, Criminal Investigation Department induction, newly-promoted Subordinate officers and Conversion.
Acting Commissioner David Ramnarine spoke about how professionalism impacts the quality of service of police to the public.
To deliver quality service, Ramnarine said, ranks must be trained and retrained and forge necessary partnerships, both locally and internationally. He said that the success of the police force is based on the integrity of its officers and the training would improve that. The training is designed for frontline officers who interacted with members of the public daily.
Kaieteur News was informed that 60 percent of the complaints received by the Office of Professional Responsibility are from ranks who would have received poor or no supervision at all.
“Education is needed for the development of skills within the force and more emphasis should be placed in restoring it in the force,” Ramnarine said.
Furthermore, he explained that, “If you can be trusted and relied on by people and colleagues, then our communities and country will be better off. Trust has been a major issue, and has been so for a long time.”
With the courses, ranks will receive basic training and those necessary to see them through in their daily lives, which include “people-skills.”
The training comes at a time when the Guyana Police Force is investigating the attempted smuggling of an AK-47 out of the Tactical Service Unit compound last Wednesday by a corporal.
That corporal will be facing criminal charges soon, Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum said yesterday during an interview.
The Corporal and a civilian were taken into police custody while the vehicle was impounded at the Criminal Investigation Department.
An Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) was among several persons also fingered in the allegation, but he will not be charged.
According to information received, last Tuesday night, the police corporal drove the vehicle into the TSU compound. Reports are that the Corporal, who worked that night, collected the weapon and placed it in the vehicle.
The following morning, a civilian entered the TSU headquarters and attempted to drive the vehicle out of the compound, but was stopped when the guards at the gate noticed him driving out, having walked in a few minutes earlier.
The vehicle was subjected to a search and the weapon was discovered.
Kaieteur News understands that before the corporal was apprehended, ranks checked the civilian’s phone and discovered there were text messages between the corporal and him. There were also messages between the ASP and the civilian.
The matter is still being investigated.
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