Police seeking advice on assault allegation against Number 51 cops

The police in Berbice are presently seeking legal advice on the matter in which, a Corentyne woman, in November, accused ranks attached to the Number 51 Police Station, of beating her and her son over an alleged theft.

After several weeks of seeking an update, a senior police officer would only divulge to this newspaper that advice is being sought on the matter.

Thakurdi Jagnanand, 54, of  Number 52 Village, Corentyne, had told this newspaper that in November, police at the station had detained her and her son, after a hire car driver accused her son of stealing his phone from the back seat of the car.