No order given to shoot or tear-gas –police

The Guyana Police Force (GPF) says that no political directive was given to any of its officers or ranks to fire tear gas or shoot persons taking part in a march last Thursday as alleged by PNCR Leader Robert Corbin.

The PNCR Leader had made the allegation in the wake of a report in the last edition of the Sunday Stabroek which said that two senior police officers had been transferred to the interior for failing to prevent PNCR marchers from changing their approved route.

Police in a statement yesterday said that the transfer is in keeping with the effective management of the force and was not linked to their “failing to carry out a political directive”.

The GPF was responding to an article published in yesterday’s