On Thursday, the National Assembly approved an $18 billion budget for the Ministry of Public Security. Included in this sum was $15 billion for current expenditure of which $165 million has been allocated for the extension and improvement of the Guyana Police Force’s Intelligence Network.
Responding to a question from Opposi-tion Parliamentarian Anil Nandlall, Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan stated that $165 million under line item 6284-Other is for the re-engineering of the intelligence capacity of the force.
“The intelligence capacity of the organisation is important and vital to it and the force has sought to have some re-engineering done in relation to the intelligence capacity. The undertaking has received a boost from the Jamaica Constabulary Force and this is what the expenditure going towards,” Ramjattan stated.
