Foundation donates $2.5M to community policing groups

Radica Ramanandan, Community Policing Liaison Officer, Ministry of Public Security receiving the cheque from Marcus Brian Bisram

The Marcus Brian Bisram Foundation on Monday donated $2.5M to the Community Policing Groups (CPGs) who will be celebrating their 41st anniversary in March 2017.

Radica Ramanandan, Community Policing Liaison Officer, Ministry of Public Security during an interview with Stabroek News said, “I asked Marcus Brian Bisram if he could support us and help us, and without any hesitation, he said, ‘I will be the sole sponsor of your programme’.”

The woman who is in charge of twenty-nine active CPGs in Berbice said that they