Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan yesterday said that “serious consideration” is being given to changing the rules governing the issuance of firearm licences to prevent a police commissioner from granting him or herself one.
His disclosure comes in wake of the recent revelation that now-retired Police Commissioner Seelall Persaud granted himself a gun dealership licence in keeping with a precedent set by his predecessors.
Ramjattan subsequently ordered Persaud to revoke the licence.
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