Sixteen men and women were yesterday certified as Supremacy Constables with the authority to enact Guyana’s environmental and conservation laws.
Addressing the newly accredited officers, Minister of Natural Resources Raphael Trotman asked that they see themselves as part of the country’s security force, according to a release from the Department of Public Information (DPI) .
“You have been trained, empowered, sworn in as officers of the GPF (Guyana Police Force)…that carries with it a tremendous weight. You have the patrimony of the state in your hands, we speak of the biodiversity, we speak about the people, rivers, the waters, the mountains, the birds, the trees that is what you have been asked to do, to come alongside the Police and the Guyana Defence Force when necessary to lend support- you are not alone in yourself, you are adjoined to the security force of this country,” the minister said.
