Three months have passed since policeman Samuel Elvis had his right foot amputated after being shot by another rank and he says he yet to receive word from the Guyana Police Force about his future or the action against the officer who shot him.
Elvis, a constable, was shot on March 20 by a corporal after he had returned from an operation where he was instructed, along with other ranks, to uplift a lost weapon belonging to the Guyana Defence Force (GDF).
He had returned to the Police Headquarters, at Eve Leary, to lodge the weapon when the corporal picked up the gun and cranked it, firing off a round in the process. Elvis was shot and taken to the Georgetown Public Hos-pital, where his leg was amputated a few weeks later. In the interim, the rank who shot him was placed under close arrest before eventually being released.
“No one has told me anything. I don’t know my status as yet,” he told Stabroek News on Friday, relating that he was told that the matter was being dealt with by the Police Welfare Office. However, he said, when he contacted the office he was instructed that the matter was under investigation and that someone would call him. The call never came, he said.
“I can’t see I’m here at home in a lot of stress and the person who did this to me is still working there,” an upset Elvis said. “I don’t think it’s fair. Nobody ain’t telling me anything, like they forget me,” he said.
“I was loyal to them and now when something happen to me and I can’t serve them, they abandon me,” he said.
Elvis was a member of the police force for six years.
When Stabroek News contacted the Police Welfare Office, an officer said the matter was not being handled by the office.
