Georgetown: The Opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP) has commended the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Guyana Police Force on its efforts in solving several crimes, including cold cases.
The PPP has also recommended that Crime Chief, Wendel Blanhum be promoted immediately from Senior Superintendent to Assistant Commissioner of Police.
“The Crime Chief must at all times be of the rank of an Assistant Commissioner”, the Party said in a statement today.
According to the PPP, the Crime Chief must be able to act independent of instructions or directives of a non-professional nature. Recently, a number of high profile cases which were unsolved for several years, were pursued by the police and the alleged perpetrators have been placed before the courts.
The list includes the 2012 triple murder of Anna Catherina liquor store owner Jennifer Persaud and her two young sons. Barber, Abishai Caesar, 31, appeared before Magistrate Rochelle Liverpool late last month and was charged for the gruesome crime.
On Sunday, police dug-up a shallow grave at Lot 51 Seaforth Street, Campbellville and unearthed the remains of a person suspected of being 28 year-old Babita Sarjou who disappeared without a trace on the eve of Diwali in November 2010.
Her husband Anand Narine, who was long suspected of playing a role in the woman’s disappearance, and an accomplice are expected to face charges in relation to the woman’s death. Blanhum told reporters that the woman’s disappearance is now being treated as a homicide.
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