Policing and Politics

In three short weeks two heinous crimes in which twenty-four people in communities as distant as Lusignan and Bartica were brutally murdered have focused the nation’s attention on the stark reality of a deeply troubling domestic security situation

politics.jpgThe administration’s agreement to establish a special select committee on the Disciplined Forces Commission Report in the National Assembly must have been an embarrassing admission of its sloth and weakness. Coming as one of the mandatory pre-conditions for the implementation of Security Sector Reform Action Plan which was the subject of a memorandum of understanding signed by British High Commissioner Mr Fraser Wheeler and Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon in August 2007, the neglected report has now been rescued from semi-obscurity and given a new lease of life.