Saying that crime fighting demands the adoption of “new attitudes and techniques,” President David Granger yesterday urged ranks of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) to embrace planned security reforms and avoid past mistakes.
“I haven’t come here to accuse you. I’ve come here to encourage you to embrace security reforms,” Granger was quoted by the Ministry of the Presidency as saying at the Annual Police Officers’ Conference.
According to a ministry statement, the president’s comment was made after he emphasised that there was no place for rogue officers in the GPF. “We must separate them so they don’t do further mischief and damage to the reputation of this great Force and don’t jeopardise the lives of their colleagues through their greed or through their folly… I am sure that there are [more] good officers than bad officers,” he said before highlighting planned reforms,