the guyana police force never stop recruit police officers,every year they recruit,or try to recruit but there always fall short of their target,what will the ppp  government do differently to attract fresh recruit    

This is PPP usual propaganda just before election to appease Afros.

1500 more people to kill innocent paralyzed Guyanese and claim they were being robbed.

1500 more people to collect bribes from Guyanese and continue the exploitation of our people.

They need a recruiting slogan such as "Join the police force and get rich quick, bribe ah knack dagg and kick back fo so.! 

I agree they should adopt the PPP motto, its perfect.

Guyana to boost police force by 1,500 officers

January 6, 2015 9:40 AM, Source - Yahoo News

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — The South American country of Guyana plans to boost its police force by 1,500 officers to help reduce killings and increase security in gold-mining areas.

Security Minister Clement Rohee said Tuesday that 130 killings were reported last year, compared to less than 100 in the previous year. He said more than 40 of those killings occurred in Guyana's rural interior.

The country's Miners Association has complained about the lack of police officers and equipment to help patrol large swaths of land where dozens of mines operate.

Rohee said the police force will soon grow to 5,000 officers.

This is happening under Rohee

a better slogan would be want to murder somebady and get away wid it?

Join de police farce....

In order to overcome the comments above, all of which I agree with, the PPP needs to seriously reform the recruitment policies and processes at all levels. Firstly, the Police force should not be doing the recruiting. They are the ones responsible for letting in the bad apples. The recruitment process should be done by an independent body free from poltical influence or police interference. The independent body should reflect the faces of the people it serves, including Amerindians, women. Written tests should be done. Models could be obtained from foreign jurisdictions. These written test should be marked by an separate independent examination council, preferably from a foreign juridiction. Those with a pass of 60% and above should proceed to the next stage. All others should be rejected. Re-advertise for the rest if necessary.

Well said.

Hope the PPP is listening.

Good post in theory Dondadda, but how do you do anything in Guyana without political influence/interference  and vindictiveness ?

The watch dog is dead.

What is your alternative then?   

Hey hey meh see Ravi dev bai dondadda turn up. Hey hey hey...

Where did you get that from. I am no Ravi Dev bai nor any body's bai.

Modify the existing constitution and elect an accountable government who treats all races equality, with equal race responsibility to manage Guyana.

A one-race government  will never work in Guyana. Proven since 1966.  

Accountability to the citizens of Guyana is the main problem. 

guyana do not need a bigger police force they need a better police force.improving the size do not mean better results 

More police doing the same thing...more corruption.

So you turn analyst now heh? Lawd help abie.

The police is the source of all the crimes in Guyana.

Agree...Why not reform them, instead of getting more.

i know you get scare when they recruit more police 

You can't reform them..you have to fire all of them. Where you go next? As long as Guyanese are prepared to bribe the police, there will always be a problem. When the police do not collect enough bribes, they resort to crime. Time to prosecute the bribers.

well said!

In every pert of the world people will try to bribe someone for something or the other,money is the root of all evil,the government have to put systems in place to try and avoid less corruption in the police department.first of all you cannot have police investigating police,you have to give back the force its pride and you can start by raising their salary and special incentives for outstanding performance,the objective is to attract bright people.but most of all you have to bring the force into the 21 century 

When the president ah give dem police raise, alu ah seh he ah brive dem. Wah you ah talkin about performance? Wah dem ah do ask question..you want fuh leff or write. Wan wan time dem ah write, bust most time peeple ah leff.

raise what kind of raise,i am not talking about the way kwame raise your ass in the air and plug some thing up your brains.u pp low life can keep laughing all the way out of power 

Where there is a will, there is a way. For one reason or another, there has never been a willingness to solve this problem and whoever decides to do it will be “mashing a lot of toes”.  Rohee should go. The populace have no confidence in him.

Corruption and criminality inside the Guyana Police Force are becoming worse

Corruption has cast a long shadow over the Guyana Police Force and a series of serious scandals have scarred its reputation of over the years. By failing to punish the malefactors, the Force has allowed the problems to fester.

Commissioner of Police  Henry Greene

Several senior Police officers were implicated in one of this country’s earliest and largest people-trafficking (‘back-track&rsquo schemes. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrested and charged Guyana-born Shawn Baldeo in Canada, alleging that he had smuggled hundreds of Guyanese into Canada in 1993. The RCMP made tape recordings of telephone conversations implicating local police officers with the Baldeo organisation. No one was ever punished in Guyana.

Several senior Police officers were again implicated in one of the worst corruption scandals in the US Diplomatic Service, in 2000. The United States diplomat Thomas Carroll was arrested with Guyana-born Halim Khan on charges of conspiracy to commit bribery and visa fraud. Although Carroll and Khan both served custodial sentences for their crimes in the USA, the police officers were never punished in Guyana.

Several serving policemen, usually from the Police Force’s dreaded Target Special Squad, were known to accompany the notorious drug-trafficker Shaheed ‘Roger’ Khan. When he was arrested by a Guyana Defence Force patrol in the area of Good Hope, East Coast Demerara in December 2002 with a vehicle which contained an arsenal of weapons and other equipment, Khan had a serving member of the Police Force at his side. A magistrate dismissed the charges against them and no internal action was taken against the policeman.

More than any other factors that have impaired the performance of the Police Force, corruption and misconduct have worsened at a time when countering transnational crime demanded greater integrity and efficiency. The increased incidence of narco-trafficking, money-laundering, gun-running and contraband-smuggling has made criminals richer and more capable of bribing poorly-paid police officers. Members of the public are usually the first to feel the effects of police misconduct. Occasionally, they have taken to the streets to call public attention to well-known grievances.

Former Minister of Home Affairs Gail Teixeira addresses anti-police protestors  in November 2005

On one such occasion, hundreds of angry demonstrators assaulted the Minister of Home Affairs Ronald Gajraj, burnt a magistrate’s car, attempted to burn down the Albion Police Station, blocked the roadway bringing traffic to a halt and conducted other acts of public terror at Albion on the Corentyne Coast on June 4 & 5, 2001. A man was shot dead by the police. In the aftermath, however, little was done to correct the abuses about which the protestors complained in the first place.

Disorder erupted again on the Corentyne four years later. Residents of Tain and surrounding communities including Whim, not far from Albion where the previous protest occurred, burnt tyres and old vehicles to protest the alleged corrupt practices of members of the Tactical Service Unit stationed in the Region, on November 25, 2005. This time, it was the job of Minister of Home Affairs Gail Teixeira to placate the restless residents. She sped to the troublespot and gave the usual assurances that there will be a thorough investigation into the allegations which included corruption and collusion with criminal elements by policemen. She promised, “We will set up an investigating committee to take evidence from people who have been victims of police corruption, or victims of suspect police involvement in any criminal activities.”

She promised the protestors that “any police rank found to be guilty of corruption will not remain in the Police Force… The Commissioner of Police and I are serious about lifting the standards of the police and their professionalism so do not doubt our seriousness.” She was wrong.

The Guyana Police Force at work

Apart from everyday corruption, the most egregious misdoings by the police have been extra-judicial killings of persons deemed to be ‘suspects.’ This practice was facilitated by the formation of various quick-reaction squads. The most lethal was called the Target Special Squad which came under the command of Superintendents Leon Fraser and Stephen Merai prior to and during the period of the troubles on the east coast, mainly in 2002-2003. Extra-judicial killings made an immediate and negative impact on families and society and robbed the police of public support.

The United Nations Human Rights Committee had made recommendations to the Government of Guyana for the prompt investigation of police killings and the excessive use of force and for measures to ensure the prosecution of offenders and the provision of effective remedies to victims. The recommendations were ignored largely and public investigations were often not conducted into such killings.

The worst case of police misconduct for several years has been the torture of the boy − Twyon Thomas − at the Leonora Police station on October 28, 2009. There was a short-lived outcry from civil society and citizens rights groups who staged a public protest to demand a higher level of human security and accountability than the force has been accustomed to providing.

The Twyon Thomas torture incident occurred after the murder of People’s Progressive Party former Vice-Chairman of the Essequibo Islands-West Demerara Region Ramnauth Bisram. The torture was a direct consequence of the arrest, detention and torture of suspects by the force’s Criminal Investigation Department. The problem was that this was not the first time that allegations of torture had been levelled against the Guyana Police Force. Officials, including ministers of the government, insensitively dismissed previous reports.

The catalogue of crimes committed by serving policemen seems to grow daily. Commissioner of Police Henry Greene had reported at the end of last year that formal complaints, many for “corrupt practices” against members of the Force, had surged by 11 per cent in 2009 to an average of about one every 48 hours. Even President Bharrat Jagdeo claimed to be astonished at the rate of corruption. He publicly expressed his dismay over the fact that, the last time he spoke to the Commissioner of Police, he was told there were about ninety policemen before the courts. “Ninety policemen in a Force of about 3,000 people… it’s a lot,” the President remarked in disbelief.

While the official mechanisms for examining complaints move slowly, corrupt policemen have continued their misconduct uninterrupted. A police constable was one of three men held for a robbery at Crabwood Creek, Corentyne during which the victim was handcuffed and robbed of cash and jewellery. Three policemen from the Leonora Police Station stole $4.3 million out of $5.8 million which they had retrieved from suspects held for the robbery and murder of a gold dealer in the Essequibo River. A policeman and a merchant were accused of robbing a man at gunpoint of a motor van and several other items totalling $8.3 million. A policeman was charged with demanding money by menace with intent to steal it while he and three other policemen were conducting a stop-and-search exercise. There are many more.

Crimes such as these in the force can no longer be treated as marginal departmental misdemeanours. The manner of investigating them and method of punishing the malefactors require serious remodelling. Corruption and criminal conduct in the force have the capability to trigger a vicious cycle – police corruption corrodes credibility; the lack of credibility paralyses effective law enforcement; the lack of effective law enforcement fosters criminality and police corruption – and so the wheel turns.

Investigation into crimes committed by policemen has become so burdensome that it now provides full-time occupation for two agencies – the Police Complaints Authority and the Guyana Police Force’s Office of Professional Responsibility.

The former is headed by a retired Chancellor of the Judiciary who does not have any investigative capability or resources. He is obliged to refer all complaints against the Police to the Police Commissioner. He must then await the Commissioner’s response before making recommendations. The latter is headed by a retired Assistant Commissioner of Police but he too can investigate only such matters as are referred to him by the Commissioner. The Office is staffed by uniformed policemen who record statements, conduct investigations and refer the matters to the Director of Public Prosecutions for advice.

The facts are that the internal disciplinary mechanism is reactive and that the investigative function is ponderous and highly centralised. The Commissioner is the sole authority for initiating investigations into the misconduct of members of the force. In addition, the benefit of employing retirees to lead these two agencies which require vigorous diligence and independence is questionable.

The slowness and shallowness of the process and sheer volume of complaints clearly have not deterred policemen from their criminal behaviour. The PCA and PSC do not possess the capabilities to conduct independent investigations. These agencies cannot properly investigate, much less prevent, criminality. As a result, abuses have been recurring with frightening frequency.

Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee has been one of the most consistent critics of misconduct in the force but he seems to place more faith in remonstrance than reform. Speaking at a ceremony to mark the refurbishment of the Brickdam and East La Penitence police stations last June, he criticised “loose” behaviour at police stations across the country. He told policemen that, based on reports he received on regular basis, “there was too much slackness taking place at stations and that such slackness can put the security of police stations at risk.”  On another occasion, Mr Rohee cited allegations of financial impropriety, the mistreatment of prisoners and corrupt practices.

In his review of the performance of the Police Force in 2009, Rohee remarked, “While it is recognised that in any organisation there is every likelihood that a few deviants will find themselves among its staff, I think that the incidents of misconduct involving ranks were too many in 2009 and have to be addressed.”

One of the reasons the epidemic of corruption continues to rage is that its causes have not been understood. The main remedy which has been recommended and on which the administration’s entire policing strategy rests is the creation of a parallel police force made up of community and neighbourhood policing elements.

President Jagdeo visited Tain in December 2005 in the wake of the disorder and made it clear the he wanted the residents to support Government’s initiative to introduce Neighbourhood Policing. This he said is “one of the immediate measures which would alleviate the problem” − the collusion of members of the Police Force in Berbice with criminal elements − which surfaced at Tain.

Ms Teixeira also claimed that “neighbourhood police play an integral role in curbing crime and violence in society and should therefore be encouraged by the various communities to join this fight against crime.” Her successor Mr Rohee iterated from the outset of his tenure that the solution to the personnel problem in the professional Police Force was to expand the neighbourhood policing programme and extend community policing groups.

Police corruption and misconduct have emerged over a long period of time and whether the administration’s nostrums can cure the disease remains to be seen. The conventional view is that criminal conduct within the force festered as a result of years of inappropriate training, inept management and political interference. Until the Guyana Police Force is comprehensively reformed, these abuses will recur.

Desperate diseases require desperate remedies.

http://www.stabroeknews.com/20...-corruption-problem/

How does other forces deal with similar issues ?

There are investigations, enquiries and accountability, with consequences.

Looks like top people in Guyana are not doing their jobs properly.

Recently an RCMP officer picked up a drunk woman, put her in jail overnight.

Next day in plain clothes, he took her and wanted to start a relationship, maybe with good intentions because he felt sorry for her.

He was reprimanded by his superiors and given seven days off without pay.

He was told its a ' horrendous  breach of trust and not abiding with standards of conduct'

Why can't Guyana do the same ?   

the ppp love guyana the way it is,they can rule like little gods 

Not surprised. One should not expect anythine else from a "mama dankey". Like Rohee nah mek you ress?

you were looking for this,you do not know when u dey good until bad reach u 

Both of you mus be from Skeldon  and know each other, right ?

You sound like buddy from the de same family.

I can see your conversation start wid one slap, den two slap, den three slap.... 

You guys are funny baaaad...

Your words..low life, caht3, tiefing, Kwame, Rohee, suck, kill and bugger. Are there any other meaningful(to you) words you know?

in your case sorry, pity,remorseful,waste,words your parents will use to address you

Glad you learned a few new words from your family.

and you shelly have learned nothing from the past. Sad..........

Yes, I did. You are still unemployed and living off the taxpayers..Haas_Manure.

You are not only delusional about your thiefman dictatorship ***** holes in Guyana but you are also delusional about everything else.

Stop fooling yourself. Do not believe in your own lies..they will catch up with you.