The Guyana Police Force has begun to use wiretapping as provided for under the Interception of Communications Act to fight crime, Crime Chief Seelall Persaud has said, but APNU parliamentarian Winston Felix has expressed concerns about the this mode of crime-fighting since it could be used to invade citizens’ privacy.
Asked yesterday by Stabroek News whether the force had begun using wiretapping to fight crime Persaud responded that he would not say how long it had been part of its crime-fighting arsenal.
The legislation permitting this was passed back in 2008 but up to 2010 then
