Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee and Canadian High Commis-sioner to Guyana Dr Nicole Giles signed a Memorandum of Under-standing yesterday on the promotions of best practices on investigating techniques.
The long awaited MoU was signed after a successful training programme which the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) conducted with the Customs and Narcotics Unit (CANU) and the Guyana Police Force (GPF) in late November last year.
Along with the MoU, Giles presented the home affairs minister with a cheque for over Cdn$7,000 to purchase 12 walkie-talkies and 6 digital video cameras. The contributions are to ensure that technology used to train members of the GPF and CANU is easily accessible long after the training is over.
Giles stated that the training was done under the Canada Fund for Local Initiatives and ventures such as these seek to go beyond the theoretical and instead implement and utilise actual equipment in the promotion of security.
The RCMP training was the first bilateral anti-crime course under the Anti-Crime Capacity Building Programme and showed Canada’s continued commitment to Guyana, Giles stated.
She said the feedback from the RCMP was that the individual participants from CANU and the GPF were highly motivated and engaged.
Rohee stated that the contribution and the MoU were components of the various necessary tools in ensuring effective security measures are being implemented and followed through.