APNU Member of Parliament James Bond has called for Government to review laws to make it easier for persons to sue for wrongful imprisonment and Police brutality, having himself been a victim of this on December 6, 2011 when he and others were shot with rubber bullets.
“I propose that there be Bail Court on weekends to deal with the question of bail for serious offences and the Ministry of Legal Affairs must be more vigilant in sanctioning the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Guyana Police Force where they fail to secure an extension of time to keep the suspect in custody where the time allowed has elapsed,” he said while speaking during the budget debate on Friday.
“I also would like to propose that we review our laws to make it easier for suspects to sue for wrongful imprisonment and police brutality,” Bond said, adding that these incidences of “barbaric abuses” must be a thing of the past. “I, having been a victim of such atrocities on December 6th 2011, can attest to the failure of not only the system of Justice but also the brutal stab at our human dignities as Mr. Errol Watts the officer in charge of the ground troops who shot at innocent Guyanese now enjoys a promotion courtesy of his superiors and the blood of innocent protesters,” he said.
Further, Bond called for the putting in place of an Ombudsman. “Mr. Speaker, a functioning, well funded