Tuesday, June 6, 2023
Village Voice News
ADVERTISEMENT
  • Home
  • News
  • Sports
  • Editorial
  • Letters
  • Global
  • Columns
    • Eye On Guyana
    • Hindsight
    • Lincoln Lewis Speaks
    • Future Notes
    • Blackout
    • From The Desk of Roysdale Forde SC
    • Diplomatic Speak
    • Mark’s Take
    • In the village
    • Mind Your Business
    • Bad & Bold
    • The Voice of Labour
    • The Herbal Section
    • Politics 101 with Dr. David Hinds
    • Talking Dollars & Making Sense
    • Book Review 
  • Education & Technology
  • E-Paper
  • Contact Us
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
  • Sports
  • Editorial
  • Letters
  • Global
  • Columns
    • Eye On Guyana
    • Hindsight
    • Lincoln Lewis Speaks
    • Future Notes
    • Blackout
    • From The Desk of Roysdale Forde SC
    • Diplomatic Speak
    • Mark’s Take
    • In the village
    • Mind Your Business
    • Bad & Bold
    • The Voice of Labour
    • The Herbal Section
    • Politics 101 with Dr. David Hinds
    • Talking Dollars & Making Sense
    • Book Review 
  • Education & Technology
  • E-Paper
  • Contact Us
No Result
View All Result
Village Voice News
No Result
View All Result
Home News

Slowe chastens police PRO over propaganda

Staff Reporter by Staff Reporter
October 16, 2021
in News
Members of the Police Corporate Communications Unit, headed by Mark Ramotar

Members of the Police Corporate Communications Unit, headed by Mark Ramotar

0
SHARES
0
VIEWS
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

Support Village Voice News With a Donation of Your Choice.

Retired Assistant Police Commissioner Paul Slowe has criticised the Corporate Communications Unit of the Guyana Police for what he termed a propaganda piece on his encounter with ranks last Friday at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

Slowe said the officers in the unit should understand that their role should not be the spreading of propaganda and foolish statements. “It may be better if they remain silent when a particular situation cannot be justified, than to issue releases which raise more questions than answers,” the former chairman of the Police Service Commisison added.

READ ALSO

Dolla pulls brake on Guyana branch but expanding in Jamaica

AFC officials highlight PPP discrimination, corruption, and lies

He noted that in relation to the “unprofessional action by members of SOCU at the Georgetown’s Magistrate’s Court Compound on Friday, October 15, 2021, where I was assaulted by Assistant Superintendent Ramana and constable 23975 Duke, the Corporate Communications Unit issued a puerile release, which clearly shows their lack of basic understanding of how professional policing should be done.”
Slowe said the persons in charge of this unit must seek professional guidance before making such nonsensical statements.
“The statement issued on Friday October 15, 2021, states “Since the commencement of these investigations by SOCU, the accused left the jurisdiction and as such he was never contacted and told of the allegations levelled against him and cautioned”.
“If the accused was never contacted and told of the allegations levelled against him and cautioned, how come charges were filed? Is it not standard professional policing for those actions to have been taken before any charge is filed?” Slowe questioned.
He said the  statement went on to say “As an accused he ought to, and was, given the opportunity to make a statement if he so wished. This morning ( Friday) he showed up at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court where investigators of SOCU arrested him prior to him appearing before the said Magistrate and told him of the allegations and cautioned him where he stated I have nothing to say”

“This is total balderdash! Which said Magistrate? How do you arrest a person prior to him appearing to answer the said charge? how do you put an allegation to a person when he is already charged for the offence? How do you caution a person who is appearing to answer a charge?
When I turned up at the court Assistant Superintendent Ramana informed me that he was arresting me. I asked him what he was arresting me for. He told me that he was arresting me for conspiracy to commit fraud. I then realized that it was the very same charge that I was summoned by the said Ramana on Friday October 8, 2021, to attend Georgetown Magistrate Court 3 on Friday October 15, 2021, and which I was at the court to answer. I informed him that he had no lawful authority to arrest me for a charge that was already before the court and for which no arrest warrant was issued. (On the last occasion the case was called the SOCU prosecutor made an application to the Magistrate for an arrest warrant to be issued. This application was correctly denied because as was said before, by the very police, I was never contacted, the allegations were never put to me, I was not on bail. Those are conditions precedent for an arrest warrant to be issued).

Advertisement

Assistant Superintendent Ramana instructed one of the ranks present to read the caution after charge.
This was so irregular. The Judge’s Rule clearly states when a caution after charge should be administered, and it’s definitely not after the charge has been FILED IN COURT.”
Slowe said one shudders to think that a leading investigator in the Special Organised Crime Unit of the Guyana Police Force, and by extension the head of that unit, does not know these basic and critical aspects of an investigation.
“No wonder the conviction rate is so low.
That is what we get when police officers blindly follow political directions.”



Support Village Voice News With a Donation of Your Choice



ShareTweetSendShareSend

Related Posts

Dolla Financial Service CEO, Kadeen Mairs.
News

Dolla pulls brake on Guyana branch but expanding in Jamaica

by Admin
June 6, 2023

Microlender Dolla Financial has set aside plans for a second branch in Guyana, and instead will put more muscle behind...

Read more
Alliance for Change Leader and Member of Parliament Khemraj Ramjattan
News

AFC officials highlight PPP discrimination, corruption, and lies

by Admin
June 6, 2023

By Mark DaCosta- On a live stream on social media on June 3, Alliance For Change (AFC) officials – General...

Read more
News

AFC tells Guyanese “Don’t vote for the PPP”

by Admin
June 6, 2023

Leaders of the  Alliance For Change (AFC)  have called on Guyanese to reject the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) lies and...

Read more
Next Post

‘Wishing Aubrey Norton well’

EDITOR'S PICK

Shadow  Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Roysdale Forde S.C

Nandlall’s response to squatters’ pains symptomatic of political depravity-Forde

January 14, 2023

COVID-19 | She Had COVID-19 For A Year

August 28, 2021
Candace LaBorde

Umpire LaBorde to stand in World Cup final on Sunday

January 31, 2023

 350 tonnes of relief for Volcano-hit St Vincent

April 13, 2021

© 2022 Village Voice | Developed by Ink Creative Agency

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
  • Sports
  • Editorial
  • Letters
  • Global
  • Columns
    • Eye On Guyana
    • Hindsight
    • Lincoln Lewis Speaks
    • Future Notes
    • Blackout
    • From The Desk of Roysdale Forde SC
    • Diplomatic Speak
    • Mark’s Take
    • In the village
    • Mind Your Business
    • Bad & Bold
    • The Voice of Labour
    • The Herbal Section
    • Politics 101 with Dr. David Hinds
    • Talking Dollars & Making Sense
    • Book Review 
  • Education & Technology
  • E-Paper
  • Contact Us

© 2022 Village Voice | Developed by Ink Creative Agency