Six senior officers were among those promoted when the Police Service Commission unveiled its list of promotions last night.
Senior Superintendent and Crime Chief Seelall Persaud has been promoted to Assistant Commissioner. Other Senior Superintendents Balram Persaud, Nolan Hendricks, George Vyphuis, Gavin Primo and Steve Merai have all been promoted to Assistant Commissioner.
Meantime, the police in the press release said that the Commissioner of Police made several other promotions within the Police Force, the Special Constabulary and the Rural Constabulary. In the Police Force, 49 ranks were promoted to sergeants, 84 to Corporals and 68 to Lance Corporals.
In the Special Constabulary, in the Regular Section, nine persons were promoted to Sergeants, 17 to Corporals, and eight to Lance Corporals while in the Corporations Section; five persons were promoted to Sergeants, two to Corporals and one to Lance Corporal.
Additionally, in the Rural Constabulary 12 persons were promoted to Sergeants while 45 persons were promoted to Corporal.
so who is dept comm. of police??
The president has scripted his songbook, and the orchestra is all assembled, it is now up to the people to dance.
Okay! Now, let the police get on with the business of 1) investigating corruption in government, 2) bribe-taking police officers, 3) drug smugglers doing brisk and big business across the borders and in the capital (only to wind up getting caught OVERSEAS), 4) gun runners, 5) money launderers who are into new or expanding businesses to which many attribute socioeconomic is development taking place, 6) building new houses, 7) buying new cars and 8) any and all criminal activities to which the government and police officials previously turned a Nelson’s eye.
It certainly can’t be true that Guyana’s only menacing criminal elements are those demented criminals armed with powerful weapons gunning down innocent people ine the name of whatever spurious cause. There are those who are putting a hurting on our economic well-being that need serious prosecution.
Second, I can only hope that with the confirmation of Henry Green as top cop and these few promotions mentioned above that the government does not believe it has conviced the nation it has completed the reformation of the police force, or else this would be just another sham.
It’s also time for the President to stop ordering criminal probes into clear criminal cases. Let the LAW take its course and justice be done and be seen to be done!
Finally, it remains a matter of striking curiosity that top cop Henry Green and his boss, Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee, are the only Caricom officials with the two job related titles who hold the dubious distinction of having their US visas revoked. Perception matters, but not to the Jagdeo government!
It is alleged that the Commissioner of Police in the Guyana Police Force “Benefited Materially from the Drug Trade”.
One of his Assistant Commissioner of Police, Steve Merai
is on “Tape Recording” Demanding Thousand of U.S Dollars
from a drug dealer.
So how is it that these two (2) top brass in the Guyana
Police Force go after drug dealers, curruption in Government and bribe-taking police officers after they are
viewed by Washington and members of the Public as the
same my friend Andy ?.
hasa merai been promoted for his ‘alleged’ one man sting operation on the drug dealer? by the way whatever happened to that investigaton? stabroek can you enlighten me?
Almost all the senior officers in the GPF have been acused of wrong doing and Drug related, why you want to question Merai alone…Do you have something against him?
Merai wuk fuh e promshun! LOL!!
You ever heard of ‘cover down’?
Ask you ma what she would do to cook a good meal!
Lawd ! I cannot believe this appointment.
Yes indeed what happened to the ’sting’ ?
No report on the result, but then again that is Guyana.
A new year, but already we see the continuance of the ‘old’.
Moderator…what happened to the investigation of the sting that Merai was alleged to be involved in?
MERAI IS THE TOUGEST AND BEST OFFICER.
Congrats to all new appointees, especially Gavin hard work pays off. Only in Guyana can there be clear cut evidence against someone of wrong doing and they be rewarded with a promotion.
HAPPY NEW YEAR
Steve Merai promoted as Assistant Commissioner of Police,
“what is this ?”, Where is Merai files that was sent to the
“DPP” over a year ago in regards to him, Merai demanding
U.S. dollars from a drug dealer ???????.
Professionalism, integrity and credibility seems to be a
dead thing in Guyana and the Guyana Police Force, how
shameful how low, what next ?.
the culture of lawlessness continues to be consolidated at an institutional level. it is such a shame that these people continue to destroy our beloved country. something has to and will give…as nat king cole sang a long time ago, “it’s just a matter of time.”
THAT WAS A SET-UP.
MERAI IS THE BEST ALONG WITH THE LATE FRASER PUT BLACKIE TO HIS PLACE WHEN HE ALWAYS STAMPING HIS CHEST THEN ROB PEOPLE.
It’s simply atrocious.A person who has a questionable record on human rights abuses, extra-judcial killings and other corrupt transactions,including extortion can be promoted to that level in the police without an outcry from the citizenry!I guess they have succeeded in muting us. As Martin Carter said,’the mouth is muzzled by the food we eat to live’ but again, lest we forget, ‘we are all consumed …we are all involved’
Now that Green is conform will he make public the status on the investigation of the Senior Police Office who was shaking down so call Business men/women in the streets of Guyana. Is the moderator Stabroek News willing to ask the Top Cop the question about the status of senior Police Officer in the…
Merai….hmmm….hmmmm…best not to say anything
I agree with you.
You live in Guyana and we all know what that means.
decandiancarlveecock!
Don’t worry with rambler, he ain’t living in Guyana. He’s jsut another one of those masqueraders!!!
Some get promoted while others who don’t and won’t toe the party line are forced to leave the police force/service.