The Guyana Police Force yesterday said that an investigation into an incident at the Providence Police Station is currently underway and no information can be released at this point.
A video posted on Facebook over a week ago showed two men and a woman storming into the Providence Police Station on the East Bank of Demerara, with one of the men brandishing a firearm.
The men are brothers and the woman is their mother.
Commander of Regional Division 4 ‘B’, Senior Superintendent Mahendra Singh yesterday stated that an active investigation is being conducted by the police. He told the Sunday Stabroek that he was not able to release any information as it relates to the video since there is an active investigation.
Based on the video, the three were being chased by several persons and apparently feared for their lives. The firearm they insisted, was for self defence purposes only.
Stabroek News had made several attempts prior to yesterday to contact Commander Singh to find out what transpired that day but had gotten no response.
One of the brothers in the video stated that two men, who were described as the sons of the owner of a construction company, were trying to confiscate the phone he was using to video record what they were doing at the time. The men were sitting in a gas station in the area. The family insist that they were forced to rush into the police station for protection so that the cellphone would not be confiscated.
The brother alleged that the day before, security officers of the company had beaten up his brother and hit him in the face with a firearm. The injured brother, the next day, was on his way to the Providence Police Station, accompanied by his other brother, to submit a medical report on his injuries when they observed the owner’s sons sitting at the gas station. The sibling proceeded to take out his cell phone and began to video record them. His explanation for doing so was that the men, through their father, were well connected, and the police would not arrest them.
When the owner’s sons realised that they were being video recorded, they chased the two brothers from the gas station, across the road and into the police station. The injured brother brandished a firearm as he said he was afraid that the men would enter the police station.
In the video, the brother that was beaten up the day before could be seen holding a gun in his hand. Once in the station, the mother of the two brothers told police that her son had been beaten up.
Also in the video, a senior policeman could be seen confiscating the firearm.
