Police ranks trained for new national emergency system

As government moves to merge 911, 912 and 913 into one emergency system, it has already trained police ranks and given the greenlight to a contract for the purchase of the necessary equipment, Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan said on Wednesday.

“We have already trained the officers to be taking the calls from wherever… we do not have a problem with the 912 [and] 913 surprisingly… but we do have one with 911. So we are going to merge the three into that new system and hopefully they are all going to work together,” he told reporters at his Brickdam office.

Ramjattan moments earlier had held a press conference to sensitise the public on the 41st anniversary of the Community Policing Organisation of Guyana.

When asked about the 911 system, Ramjattan said