After finding that the Guyana Police Force and the Guyana Defence Force were both complicit in aiding and abetting soldier Gregory Smith in the killing of political activist and scholar Dr Walter Rodney, the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) set up to investigate his death has recommended that every effort should be made to ensure that both agencies are professional.
“In the end it is clear to us that the police were unprofessional, extremely inefficient in turning a blind eye to the obvious, or deliberately botched the investigation in Dr Rodney’s killing or were complicit with others, including the GDF in hiding or shielding Gregory Smith from facing the brunt of the law…,”
