Top Cop, Leroy Brummel is urging communities across Guyana to fight back against criminal elements that are infiltrating formerly peaceful neighbourhoods. The Acting Police Commissioner told members of the Meten-Meer-Zorg community that “we have to take back our communities” during a Police/ Community Outreach held in the area following a surge of serious crimes.
Brummel said that communities had to “war” with criminals and that citizens as well as the Guyana Police Force had to be vigilant by working together. The Commissioner stated that in the light of the recent spate of murders and robberies in the West Demerara region the judicial system had to do its part to ensure that criminal elements were shut down. He went further by calling for convicted criminals to be hanged: “every week you hang two, but as I am saying, we don’t have the power,” acknowledging that only the President could make that call.
Brummel turned his attention to licensed firearm owners stating that they had a responsibility to the
