Police force starved of resources, says ex top cop Felix

Winston Felix

Former police commissioner Winston Felix said yesterday that during his tenure the government deliberately withheld the resources needed to enhance the Guyana Police Force.

“It was the question of the provision of resources and I can say clearly that at that time I felt that I was deliberately starved of resources…. It was a perception issue. They had a perception of me,” Felix, a candidate for the opposition coalition A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) told a news conference, in response to a question about his difficulties were working under the current government.

Felix said if the force’s image is to be improved and crime is