Farewell parade honours retiring presidential guard service head

Outgoing head of the Presidential Guard, Assistant Commissioner of Police Brian Joseph inspecting the Guard of Honour at a farewell parade for him yesterday at D’Urban Park. See story on centre pages. (Photo by Keno George)

A farewell parade was held at D’Urban Park yesterday for the retiring Head of the Presidential Guard Service, Assistant Commissioner of Police Brian Joseph.

Addressing attendees at the farewell, Joseph, who gave 35 years of service to the Guyana Police Force, said he had done his best with the tools that were given to him.

“I will not pretend that I am the first to experience the sadness that I feel to be leaving a body of men and women who I feel such a warm connection to,” he said. He added that he never thought that he would become so connected to persons when he first joined the police force in 1982.

Reminiscing on his years of service to the force and how he