The police force is defending its response to piracy in Berbice, saying it has investigated 30 reports in the county over the past five years, from which 23 cases were placed before the courts.
“The Guyana Police Force wishes to state that we have been dealing aggressively with acts of piracy,” police force spokesman Ivelaw Whittaker said in a statement yesterday, in response to criticism by Chairman of the Upper Corentyne Fishermen’s Co-op Society and Berbice Anti-Piracy Squad Pravinchandra Deodat.
The police force is taking issue with Deodat’s assertions, reported in the