Police yesterday morning rounded up close to a dozen men in the East Bank Demerara community of Agricola during a raid which the lawmen said was a routine exercise.
Angry residents taunted and hurled remarks at the policemen during the raid which began shortly after 5 am and ended sometime after 9 am.
Residents told reporters that most of the men were picked up from their homes, while others were stopped and searched on their way to work and later bundled into a police vehicle. Police over recent months have stepped up surveillance in Agricola and other communities besieged by crime.
A routine exercise? Summary arrests? Round up the usual suspects? So then, it is true that arbitrary detention has become the mode d’emploi. So much for the rule of law and individual rights in Guyana.
Maybe one day the men of Agicola, Albouystown, Buxton and the Bay will push right back. Where do we go from there?
This police force must have broken the mold when it comes to stupidity.
LOL, I like “round up the usual suspects” seems like a movie of cops gone bad.
Sometimes when I read the news, it’s surreal.
The EXODUS continues!
That strident voices are not being raised in outrage demonstrate how well locked down the PPP has this country, and the hypocrisy of those who mouth about the importance of rights and such. Let the police do that with the children of constituents of the PPP and all hell will break loose. Guyana has become George Orwell’s animal farm, with humans assuming the roles of the quadruped and bipid species on that farm.
Excellent work! Please lift the standard of law enforcement in Guyana.
These criminals are determined on destroying our communities. Unfortunately, there are some in our community still harboring criminals. These people need to be exposed and arrested, as well.
Its the economic situation in the country that is breeding this crime wave. Taking innocent young men will only fuel them to actually do something and get the blame instead of being innocent and still get blame.
i’ve been ’rounded up’ by Guyana Police many times while driving
they’re always on useless hunting exercises and always never have time to look into real crimes taking place right before their eyes in broad daylight
These shows of power and force do very little to improve the view most people have of the police.
They have enormous powers of arrest.
Now we await the report on the results of this exercise.
Yuh tink dat we gun get it?
Nevah!
Well … I will looking for:
exact number of persons arrested [not “close to a dozen men”[
number of houses raided
number of doors broken down
number of doors subsequently repaired (I doubt if they would do any repairs)
number of charges laid
details of all charges per person [ I don’t want to see some trumped up charges like resisting arrest, confrontation with police and the like).
Yuh ting dat we gun get it?
NEVAH…NEVAH!
Well guyana will always be that when the same police catch the man an is body guards with guns what happen they let him go but now they are picking up people who they knew are not the ones they want thats why guyana will always be what it s in the poor will be beat up by the law an rich will ride on the tide
Aeneas would you like any body to wake you uot of your bed at 5 :00 o”clock in the morning.Young black boys and men of Guyana it will soon be over your God and my God are hearing our cries.It must come to an end one day be encouaged.
Please round up the real criminal and not innocent people because they are from Agricola, the police who are rounding up these innocent people know who commit the crime, they need to start looking within themselves. Agricola produced a lot of smart and educated people. I am praying for my village.
Aeneas Wrote:
………..Excellent work! Please lift the standard of law enforcement in Guyana.
These criminals are determined on destroying our communities. Unfortunately, there are some in our community still harboring criminals. These people need to be exposed and arrested, as well
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Like I said, shades of apartheid South Africa. For those ideologued along the lines of the supporters of that regime, guilt is automatic, that is, if the arrested belong to certain segments of the population. That, my friends, represent the sickness that has taken over the administration of affairs in Guyana.
I mean how vacuous does someone have to be to make these kinds of assertions from habitat in a nation governed by a constitution with an explicit bill of rights outlawing this kind of practice by law enforcement. Like I said, that represent the kind of sickness, mental that is, that has taken over the affairs of Guyana. That right and wrong is a product of what is being done to whom, rather than basically what is being done period.