Retired Assistant Com-missioner of Police Clinton Conway says that it is of paramount importance that recent developments in the security sector, including the findings of the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the alleged assassination plot against the president, are factored into the Security Sector Reform Action Plan (SSRAP) being developed by British expert Lt Col (rtd) Russell Combe.
“The present state of the security sector has to be carefully looked at and a failure to do so would make any plan created of little consequence… those problems will continue to occur and the force will reach a point of no return. He [Combe] has got to look at them [recent incidents] because there are destructive things… and unless they are addressed the police force will continue to suffer,” Conway, who has in excess of 30 years policing experience, told Sunday Stabroek recently. “I don’t know how it will be dealt with but a strong decision has to be taken one way or the other. If you don’t deal with them [the issues] things are going to continue to happen… we got to draw the line, action has got to be taken somewhere,” he added.
Combe, who is on a 12-month stint at the Ministry of the Presidency,