Security in private hands

Those thoughts were prompted by two events – or sets of events.

One has to do with a story in another section of the print media which stated that `Strategic security services awarded $1.1 Billion contract to secure state property.’  The other reason has to do with the seemingly daily infractions by our full-fledged policemen with allegations being leveled from top to bottom of the once-noble Force.

I suspect that our society does not pause to heed the importance of Guyana’s Private Security Service Sector.  I suspect too, that private security guards outnumber our full-fledged policemen and women.  I’m not including here members of the entity described as the “Special Constabulary”.  (I see them too at State Agencies,