The Guyana Police Force (GPF) believes that the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)-funded Citizen Security Strengthen-ing Programme (CSSP) has significantly helped not only in infrastructure building and personnel improvement but in lowering crime and building public trust.
Implemented by the Ministry of Home Affairs, Project Imple-mentation Unit in 2015 and led by Vishraj Singh, the project sought to build on the results and experiences of the preceding Citizen Security Project started since 2006, with a view of further addressing the pressing risk factors for crime and violence. It will conclude at the end of this year.
“It is important that we continue on this path to have a police service instead of a police force,” Commissioner of Police (Ag) Clifton Hicken on Friday told attendees at a Citizen Security Strengthening Programme exit workshop.
