A comprehensive check will have to be undertaken to determine the quantum of documents pertaining to current court cases destroyed in the fire that ravaged the Brickdam Police Station on Saturday, Commander of Region ‘4’ A Simon Mc Bean says.
Speaking with Stabroek News yesterday, he said that court records had not been digitized.
“We have to do an assessment to say as to what files we would have lost. When that is done, based on the assessment [we will be able to say if] some can be restructured from within. We can have assistance from the court in doing so… but we need to have an assessment of what state court presentations were at, until we have that we won’t be able to really go forward,” he said.
It is believed that Saturday’s inferno would have destroyed a large number of court documents.
Minister of Home Affairs Robeson Benn on Saturday said that while “about 80 or more per cent” was destroyed in terms of the building “Work will have to be done to reconstruct some files which were lost…There is [the] loss of vehicles, some equipment, some exhibits, both motorcycles and cars and some other items which are exhibits,” he said.
