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Top Cop hints at SOCU intervention

By Staff Writer 9 h ago

Following reports of grave mismanagement taking place at the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU), Police Commis-sioner Leslie James yesterday hinted at the strong possibility of him intervening to have the matter sorted out.

“There appears to be issues at SOCU and the Commissioner of Police (COP) is likely to become involved,” James said in a brief comment to Stabroek News. SOCU falls under the Guyana Police Force.

Sacked UK advisor Dr. Sam Sittlington as well as staff of the unit have expressed concerns at the way the unit is being managed by head, Sydney James. At the top of the list is the spending of the operational funds, which ought to cater for basic things such as the purchase of toiletries and credit for investigators and other staff as well as the current arrangement for the storage of seized cash. Stabroek News was reliably informed that Sydney James, a former GDF intelligence officer has not turned up for the work since the start of the week nor has he explained his absence to his staff…..

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DjangoAdmin

Top Cop hints at SOCU intervention

When INTERVENTION becomes investigating ???

2/20/1910:19 AM

kpHonorary Member

That's the BEST u can come up with. It will take me a long time to explain to you, I will deal with you when I am not busy, come back later.

2/20/1910:42 AM

NehruBig Mouth Member

KP, he is the CEO od SHITEX, his motto is "you shit, I clean!!!

2/20/1910:46 AM

DjangoAdmin

kp posted:
That's the BEST u can come up with. It will take me a long time to explain to you, I will deal with you when I am not busy, come back later.

You aren't at the level to deal with any one, plain and simple. All you are doing is shooting crap.

I take on whole crew here daily, one man making rings around the heads, clearly the crew is weak bunch of sour pu$$es.

2/20/1910:48 AM

DjangoAdmin

Nehru posted:
KP, he is the CEO od SHITEX, his motto is "you shit, I clean!!!

CHIEF IDIOT, you sucking up !!!!

2/20/1910:48 AM

kpHonorary Member

Django posted:
kp posted:
That's the BEST u can come up with. It will take me a long time to explain to you, I will deal with you when I am not busy, come back later.
You aren't at the level to deal with any one, plain and simple. All you are doing is shooting crap.
I take on whole crew here daily, one man making rings around the heads, clearly the crew is weak bunch of sour pu$$es.

You know how Stupid you sound? The crew is making a fool of you in a scuttle way, the ONE MAN circus in Town.The Clown throwing RINGS in the air.

2/20/1910:54 AM

NehruBig Mouth Member

HEHE A Jackass never knows he is BRAYING. SHITEX the new Co to pick up Granger Doo DOo

2/20/1910:55 AM

DjangoAdmin

kp posted:
Django posted:
kp posted:
That's the BEST u can come up with. It will take me a long time to explain to you, I will deal with you when I am not busy, come back later.
You aren't at the level to deal with any one, plain and simple. All you are doing is shooting crap.
I take on whole crew here daily, one man making rings around the heads, clearly the crew is weak bunch of sour pu$$es.
You know how Stupid you sound? The crew is making a fool of you in a scuttle way, the ONE MAN circus in Town.The Clown throwing RINGS in the air.

What sound stupid ??? your post are mediocre. Do you think the IDIOTIC post makes any rings. That's for kindergartners , any way the crew brains like that.

The side kicks thinks they are doing great.

2/20/1911:01 AM

kpHonorary Member

Django posted:
kp posted:
Django posted:
kp posted:
That's the BEST u can come up with. It will take me a long time to explain to you, I will deal with you when I am not busy, come back later.
You aren't at the level to deal with any one, plain and simple. All you are doing is shooting crap.
I take on whole crew here daily, one man making rings around the heads, clearly the crew is weak bunch of sour pu$$es.
You know how Stupid you sound? The crew is making a fool of you in a scuttle way, the ONE MAN circus in Town.The Clown throwing RINGS in the air.
What sound stupid ??? your post are mediocre. Do you think the IDIOTIC post makes any rings. That's for kindergartners , any way the crew brains like that.
The side kicks thinks they are doing great.

Don't make me laff, you came here on GNI to display you mediocre academic prowess, anyway for a kindergartner posting I grab your attention, as they say Simple minds attract simpletons.

2/20/1911:08 AM

DjangoAdmin

kp posted:
Django posted:
kp posted:
Django posted:
kp posted:
That's the BEST u can come up with. It will take me a long time to explain to you, I will deal with you when I am not busy, come back later.
You aren't at the level to deal with any one, plain and simple. All you are doing is shooting crap.
I take on whole crew here daily, one man making rings around the heads, clearly the crew is weak bunch of sour pu$$es.
You know how Stupid you sound? The crew is making a fool of you in a scuttle way, the ONE MAN circus in Town.The Clown throwing RINGS in the air.
What sound stupid ??? your post are mediocre. Do you think the IDIOTIC post makes any rings. That's for kindergartners , any way the crew brains like that.
The side kicks thinks they are doing great.
Don't make me laff, you came here on GNI to display you mediocre academic prowess, anyway for a kindergartner posting I grab your attention, as they say Simple minds attract simpletons.

Banna, as i have mentioned you ain't ready yet. This thread would have died, if the crappy headline wasn't exposed.

2/20/1911:19 AM

kpHonorary Member

Top Cop to straighten SOCU

By Staff Reporter -

February 21, 2019

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…summons Sydney James to meeting to address issues of alleged mismanagement

COMMISSIONER of Police Leslie James on Wednesday confirmed that he summoned Head of the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU), Assistant Commissioner of Police, Sydney James, on Wednesday to a meeting to discuss issues at the agency, which has come under public scrutiny since the firing of adviser Dr. Sam Sittlington and the resignation of another senior official.

James, without going into details, told the Guyana Chronicle that the meetings will be continuous. He declined to comment on reports that Sydney James had been absent from the job and when asked to comment on alleged mismanagement of SOCU, the police chief said he has not yet made that assessment.

On Wednesday, Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan told the Guyana Chronicle that some information came to him about developments at the SOCU but since those are operational matters, he has asked the Commissioner of Police to look into them as he does not want to interfere with the operations of the force, administrative and operational issues. There were reports that Sydney James has been off the job but Minister Ramjattan said that he did not sanction James being off the job and that the question will be better posed to the Commissioner of Police.

There are reports surfacing now that SOCU is facing a number of issues including the operational funds for the agency being mismanaged. The Guyana Chronicle was told by one person close to the oversight of the agency that the problems have been long-standing and that the Commissioner of Police was asked to address it but, from the look of things, other issues got into the way and that prevented the Top Cop from immediately addressing the issue which are now making their way into the public domain.

One senior source indicated that Sittlington did indeed observe issues as it relates to mismanagement at the agency and those issues were raised with the head of SOCU. Information now coming to the fore is that Sittlington faced resistance at a very high level within SOCU when he was first brought to the agency, but given government’s determination to have the programme of the agency be carried on with, those resistance had to be quelled.

Based on reports, Sheronie James, the former deputy head of SOCU who recently resigned over concerns about her credentials, was hired by the agency after she provided documentation stating that she was an ACCA affiliate when, in fact, the certificate which she provided belonged to another person who lived in Ghana and who carried an identical name as hers. “No checks and balances were done to ascertain if indeed the woman was as qualified as she claimed to be. In light of her not being an expert, if you cannot be deemed an expert then all our cases will go bad,” one source indicated.

On Wednesday, repeated efforts to contact Sydney James proved futile. Sydney James, who was the spy Chief for the Guyana Defence Force was seconded to the Guyana Police Force by the Donald Ramotar Administration.

2/21/1911:41 AM

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