A policewoman may face disciplinary action for behaving disorderly because she was not adjudged the winner of a “pyjamas competition” held at a disco at Belladrum on Sunday night.
A source said that after the winner was announced around 11.30 pm, the music, supplied by a live band, continued playing. However, the female officer, with “backings from a few Neighbourhood Police and relatives started to shout loudly to stop the f&*%$#@ music!” and it was stopped abruptly. Although persons tried to assuage her “she said she did not want to hear anything,” the source said.
The woman kept shouting that she should have won the crown even though the judges felt she did not deserve it.
The source told this newspaper that the incident started to get out of hand with one of the officer’s accomplices hurling a bottle at one of the organizers. Luckily, he said, the bottle just brushed past.
The source said too that the persons threatened to complain to a senior police officer, but the female officer bluntly responded that she only took instructions from the commander”.
Reports are that “her outfit was not complete; she did not wear bedroom slippers… and she did not follow” the criteria.
Stabroek News learnt that the owner of the disco was embarrassed by the female officer’s behaviour and tried to drown her out with music from his set. But within five minutes he decided to stop the music and patrons who were having a good time were forced to leave.
The problem reportedly started when the woman did not win the coveted first prize of US$50, compliments of a few overseas-based Guyanese who had planned the event. This newspaper learnt that the overseas-based persons were embarrassed as well and could not understand the reason for the woman’s outburst.
An organizer said that since the policewoman entered she started to be “behave outrageous… she and her friends shouted ‘police, open the gate’. She called for food and beers for she and her friends and we gave them to her and we did not ask them to pay.”
