Transnational cooperation needed in drug fight, Ramotar says

Donald Ramotar

Transnational cooperation is badly needed to fight the narco-trade with police successes in the crime fight being “up and down”, PPP Presidential candidate Donald Ramotar said though he ruled out any enquiry into the post-2002 jailbreak crime wave.

The PPP’s policies are for cooperation, he said with an interview with Stabroek News on Friday, but would not say, whether under his administration, he would accept foreign law enforcement officials in the police force. He said that every decision made up to now has been made in concrete circumstances and he does not want to make a commitment to something way down in the future.

Acknowledging that a lot of the crimes that occur here are stimulated by narco-trafficking, Ramotar said there is a definite need for greater cooperation in fighting this scourge. “It’s now quite recognised that no single country can really