The AFC is insisting that the government seek international assistance to address comprehensive reform of the security sector, following the brutal attack last Wednesday on 20-year-old Police Constable Kelvin George at Monkey Mountain while he was trying to effect a lawful arrest.
The attack on the constable “while he was in the process of carrying out his duties is totally unacceptable and the perpetrators must be brought to justice,” said AFC Parliamentarian Trevor Williams, reading a statement at the party’s press conference yesterday.
The party is also calling for a full investigation into this crime, urging the government to ensure that this does not become another cold case.
Moreover, the AFC wants the government to have adequate resources and manpower deployed to the interior regions to deal with the upsurge of criminal activities and lawlessness, Williams stated.
He also contended that this attack on a police rank “speaks to an ever increasing ‘wild-west’ type scenario that is fast developing in the interior regions of Guyana and which the Guyana Police Force is ill equipped to address due to the government’s negligence to comprehensively address national security.”
If police ranks in the interior come under this type of assault, Williams posited, it boggles the mind to think what ordinary citizens will have to endure.
And according to information reaching the AFC, the young police rank had to pretend to be dead after overhearing his attackers planning his death as this was the only way to save his life.
Furthermore, the party was told that he was left on his own to make his way to Georgetown with only the pilot in the aircraft.
And as if that was not enough, the young policeman waited for about two hours at the Georgetown Public Hospital for an X-Ray only to be told that the machine was not working, the AFC noted.
The party maintained that security service personnel risk their lives to make Guyana safe and they deserve the full support of all Guyanese and their communities.
Meanwhile, the AFC contended that all Guyanese are aware that crime in the interior is on the increase but the government still wants people to believe that they have the situation under control.
However, the party asked how can the situation be under control when ranks of the primary law enforcement agency are being attacked and only by pretending to be dead they are able to save their own lives?
