Despite many challenges, ranks attached to the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) headquarters performed well this year, according to Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum who said efforts will continue to improve relations with the many stakeholders.
“We had a number of challenges. We had to deal with staged murders, we had staged robberies…conspiracies which resulted in murders…airport robberies,” he said, while adding that gang-related crimes, white collar crimes, piracy, high-profile fraud and crimes committed on persons leaving banks were also challenges.
Blanhum, who took up the helm of the CID—the Guyana Police Force’s investigative arm—earlier this year, was speaking at the Christmas luncheon yesterday during which more than two dozen awards were handed out to ranks who performed well during the course of the year.
In brief comments to those gathered under tents in the compound of Police Headquarters, Eve Leary, Blanhum said that for 2015,
