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Written by Denis Scott Chabrol   
Thursday, 03 January 2013 19:05
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Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee.

Guyana ditched the 4.9 million pound sterling British-funded Security Sector Reform Programme (SSRP) several years ago partly because government did not want foreign police officers take up senior positions in the local police force, Home Affairs Minister, Clement Rohee said Thursday. 

“What was being proposed then was the recruitment of experts to be in line positions, meaning that if you had vacancies for three Assistant Commissioners, you must take those individuals who are coming from overseas and put them in those positions. That is what we did not agree to,” he told reporters. 

He was at the time defending the decision to allow international police officers to work on several aspects of reform of the Guyana Police Force through a consultancy by the British  firm, Capita Symonds, which has been recruited directly by the government after SSRP negotiations had collapsed. 

He reiterated that alongside the 2013-2017 Strategic Plan, Capita Symonds could be allowed to bring in international police officers (IPOs) to address four critical areas- Administration, Succession Planning, Integrity/Probity (Professionalization) and Public Relations/Communication. 

“We are not going to fill vacancies that have to be agreed to by the Police Service Commission or the Commissioner by thee IPOs. What they are going to be work as are consultants with the organisation that is totally Guyanese,” he added. 

Rohee said foreign police officers would not be inserted into the recently renamed Guyana Police Service but would work alongside local officers. 

Guyana and Britain in 2007 had inked a Memorandum of Understanding for the SSRP but two years later Britain pulled out over concerns about accountability for British taxpayers’ money. 

A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) on Thursday noted that the Home Affairs Minister had effectively ruled out resident experts in the police force because the Guyana Police Force had already gone a far way in its reforms. He had said that the force and the country had enough experts. “When it comes to bringing experts to Guyana for the security sector that is a no go.”

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For All You PPP Mudheads here on GNI: This is why corruption is such a bad thing. Corruption costs lives.

 

I wonder how many Indian and Black lives could have been saved from this British Security Sector Programme if it wasn't vetoed by Freedom House.

FM
Originally Posted by Henry:

Right. We really need the sort of protection from the British that they provided back in the 1960s.

 

 

Mudhead,

 

What does that 2 pence graphic have to do with the topic? Or are you too stupid to separate relevant from irrelevance?

FM
Originally Posted by JoKer:
Originally Posted by Henry:

Right. We really need the sort of protection from the British that they provided back in the 1960s.

 

 

Mudhead,

 

What does that 2 pence graphic have to do with the topic? Or are you too stupid to separate relevant from irrelevance?

The British LIMEY DOGS got us where we ARE. A divided Society!!!! You will NEVER understand!!!

Nehru
Originally Posted by Nehru:
Originally Posted by JoKer:
Originally Posted by Henry:

Right. We really need the sort of protection from the British that they provided back in the 1960s.

 

 

Mudhead,

 

What does that 2 pence graphic have to do with the topic? Or are you too stupid to separate relevant from irrelevance?

The British LIMEY DOGS got us where we ARE. A divided Society!!!! You will NEVER understand!!!

 

So you're ok with the PPP refusing substantial foreign aid to professionalize the Police Force?

 

Or you prefer living mentally in the 1960s and pissing away our present and future as a people?

FM
Originally Posted by JoKer:
Originally Posted by Nehru:
Originally Posted by JoKer:
Originally Posted by Henry:

Right. We really need the sort of protection from the British that they provided back in the 1960s.

 

 

Mudhead,

 

What does that 2 pence graphic have to do with the topic? Or are you too stupid to separate relevant from irrelevance?

The British LIMEY DOGS got us where we ARE. A divided Society!!!! You will NEVER understand!!!

 

So you're ok with the PPP refusing substantial foreign aid to professionalize the Police Force?

 

Or you prefer living mentally in the 1960s and pissing away our present and future as a people?

 

Several better run Caribbean nations have senior people from other countries - Canada and UK. 

FM
Originally Posted by Nehru:

Joker, If the british are willing to spend their money and are SINCERE about their effort, then by all means let them do it.

 

Sir,

 

They tried and it was vetoed by the Guyanese Government. I thought the PPP really really care for the ordinary Indian. This doesn't sound very pro-Indian to me.

 

Honest question...how come Indians like you don't even object to PPP blatant misbehavior like this?

FM
Originally Posted by Nehru:

Joker, If the british are willing to spend their money and are SINCERE about their effort, then by all means let them do it.

We take in more money from these people for everything else than we produce ourselves and yet you want to question their sincerity when it comes to direct aid for our security sector? Ask those who refused it why they did.

FM
Originally Posted by Stormborn:
Originally Posted by Nehru:

Joker, If the british are willing to spend their money and are SINCERE about their effort, then by all means let them do it.

We take in more money from these people for everything else than we produce ourselves and yet you want to question their sincerity when it comes to direct aid for our security sector? Ask those who refused it why they did.

 

These beggars all of a sudden become choosy when faced with giving up some corruption in exchange for the lives and property of their ordinary supporters.

FM
Originally Posted by JoKer:
Originally Posted by Stormborn:
Originally Posted by Nehru:

Joker, If the british are willing to spend their money and are SINCERE about their effort, then by all means let them do it.

We take in more money from these people for everything else than we produce ourselves and yet you want to question their sincerity when it comes to direct aid for our security sector? Ask those who refused it why they did.

 

These beggars all of a sudden become choosy when faced with giving up some corruption in exchange for the lives and property of their ordinary supporters.

 

Yep...mendicants suddenly became big shots. 

FM
Originally Posted by TK:
 

 

Several better run Caribbean nations have senior people from other countries - Canada and UK. 

The use of the word "nations" is inappropriate in this context.

FM
Originally Posted by Jalil:



That's right -- homosexuals, buffoons and clowns. They don't do anything out of altruistic motives, especially take over your internal security apparatus.
FM
Originally Posted by JoKer:
Originally Posted by Nehru:

Joker, If the british are willing to spend their money and are SINCERE about their effort, then by all means let them do it.

 

Sir,

 

They tried and it was vetoed by the Guyanese Government. I thought the PPP really really care for the ordinary Indian. This doesn't sound very pro-Indian to me.

 

Honest question...how come Indians like you don't even object to PPP blatant misbehavior like this?

Bannas, They wanted to Enslave us all over again. They wanted control of the process and Information. We might as well let them be MASTERS AGAIN. I do not know if that is what you would have like. NOW, if they have better terms, the GOVT is willing to work with them BUT will NEVER give up Sovreignty bto the LIMEYS.

Nehru

So what is the police doing with all the information they are holding? Is it not the PPP stooges who complain that the police is under the control of the PNC? In that case, why is the PPP refusing the help of the UK to take control out of the hands of the PNC controlled police?

 

Let's face it: this is just another Anansi story from the PPP. The police is not under the control of the PNC, but of the PPP. The UK police guys would have sussed out very quickly why the criminal king pins were not behind bars. That's because the PPP criminals are considered Untouchables.

Mr.T

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