Five-part security strategy formed to crush criminal network – Harmon

The government will be working closely with the Guyana Police Force to ensure that there is a serious approach to tackling the country’s escalating crime situation, according to Minister of State Joseph Harmon who yesterday announced that there is a five-part security strategy in the works to crush this criminal network.

“Criminals have no place or no home… we will go after them relentlessly with every tool, every asset of the state, and that the criminals and their handlers will understand that the state will not sit idly by and allow them to run riot on the streets of this country,” he said during his weekly post cabinet press briefing held yesterday.

On Tuesday, President David Granger chaired a high-level security meeting with the aim of formulating a national plan to effectively tackle the crime situation. Granger viewed such a meeting as a matter of high priority and importance given the almost daily occurrence of