Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee yesterday distanced himself from the recent promotion of the two police officers who had tortured a teenaged boy at the Leonora Police Station in 2009, saying that the Police Service Com-mission (PSC) would have made this decision based on a recommendation made by Acting Police Commissioner Seelall Persaud.
“I have nothing to do with the Police Service Commission. That is a constitutional body, they make decisions in their own right, on their own judgment, based on a number of records and so forth. Clement Rohee has nothing to with the Police Service Commission,” he said when faced with a question on the issue after a PPP/C press conference yesterday.
The Guyana Police Force remains silent as questions continued to swirl about the circumstances surrounding the promotion of Mohanram Dolai and Narine Lall. Sources told this newspaper yesterday that there are other officers who have been embroiled in controversy, one in another torture case, on the list of promotions.
Narine Lall was promoted from sergeant to inspector while Mohanram Dolai was promoted from constable to corporal.
While the criminal matter ended because the teen and the other witnesses failed to show up,
