President David Granger yesterday convened a high-level security meeting on developing a strategy to address the recent upsurge in crimes and government afterward emphasised that it would be going after criminals.
A report issued by the Government Information Agency (GINA) stated that Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo, Minister of State Joseph Harmon, Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan, Minister of Social Cohesion Amna Ally, Commissioner of Police Seelall Persaud and Deputy Chief of Staff of the Guyana Defence Force Colonel Khemraj Persaud were in attendance at the meeting with the president. The presence of the Deputy Chief of Staff of the GDF would suggest that the government was contemplating using it in the crime fight.
It was stated that there were initial discussions for the development of a broad-based strategic crime fighting approach that
