Jagdeo backs probe of Bascom allegations

Azruddin Mohamed

While agreeing that the allegations made by policeman Dion Bascom must be looked into, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday said that the ruling People’s Progressive Party (PPP) would not condone illegalities by anyone.

Jagdeo also gave notice that the Guyana Police Force (GPF), which allows its officers to moonlight as security personnel, may have to end the practice as it does not bode well for impartiality in the execution of duties by those officers as it relates to those who have engaged them.

Jagdeo was speaking at a press conference yesterday in wake of Bascom’s claims, including the alleged cover up by the GPF in the murder of Ricardo ‘Paper shorts’ Fagundes.