The holding of a 13-year-old girl in the police lock-ups for close to a week after she ran away with an adult male has once again raised the issue of there being a more educated police force and Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan said that he will work to ensure that this is the last case of minors being placed in adult lockups.
Had there been a more educated force, he said, then ranks at the Bartica Police Station would have known that it is wrong to hold a young child in a police lockups that has no provision for juveniles.
“If we had good police officers at Bartica, understanding the nature of the problem, they could have done a
