Georgetown : A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) today calls on the People’s Progressive Party/Civic administration to implement a serious security strategy to protect citizens from criminal violence.
The Partnership accuses Minister of Home Affairs, Mr. Clement Rohee, of deliberately avoiding references, in his 31st December 2012 Press Conference, to the high rate of armed robberies (about 8 per day), contraband-smuggling, gun-running, money-laundering, narcotics-trafficking, people-trafficking, piracy and banditry plaguing the country.
APNU demands that the Capita-Symonds Report – which was handed over to Mr. Rohee 22 months ago, in March 2011, and now forms the basis of the new ‘plan’ – be laid before the National Assembly. It should also be published in the media so that the public could read its contents and assess its relevance to crime fighting and the improvement of the efficiency and effectiveness of the Guyana Police Force.
APNU points out that there has been no shortage of so-called plans for security sector reform by the PPPC administration over the past 12 years. These efforts, however, have been deliberately derailed and not one of them has been fully implemented.
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