Dear Editor,
President Ali is pleading with Guyanese to return home and work on developing and transforming Guyana. I returned home. In February 2022, I had reason to visit the Kitty Police Station. On March 8th, I was again drawn to the Kitty Police station on allegations of someone breaking and entering an estate property. The Inspector accosted me, asking if there isn’t a restraining order on me. I asked her to provide the proof of that Order, since none was issued on me, nor can be issued on me. She had none. The Inspector walked away but the ranks told me I was free to leave.
On April 20th, I again went to the property to facilitate GPL and GWI technicians disconnecting the services. After, I went to Kitty Police Station to inform that there were two strangers in the dwelling. On arrival, I addressed the Inspector. Instead the Inspector gave her ranks instructions to put me on the bench and process me. I was amused since it was the very Inspector to whom I had shown my authority to be on the said premises. After about three plus hours, and my bags searched and items taken, as well as the rank on duty plunging her hands in my drawers to retrieve my mobile phone, I was taken to La Penitence Police Station where I was held in a cell until Friday April 22; two nights and two days. I was then released on $30,000 bail to appear in court on Monday April 25th.
While at Kitty, and during the scuffle for my phone, my head was banged to a wall. My hair was used as a lever to wrench my head backward, so that my esophagus was so stretched that I could not breathe. While at La Penitence, the rank threatened that she would stab my ‘foot’ (referring to my thigh – with a kitchen knife she was using to remove a ribbon from around my body) then take me to the hospital. The experience was so surreal. I still cannot quite process what happened on April 20th, 2022. To say the least, the behaviour of the ranks at Kitty is crass. They do not know the process of arresting someone. So much ignorance is spewed from their mouths, and the abuse of their authority is nothing short of a manifestation of barbarism. I want to know if this is what President Ali is inviting Guyanese nationals to return to.
Sincerely,
Kim Medford
