WHEN members of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) and the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) are involved in criminal activities it becomes a very serious concern for the security forces, according to Crime Chief, Leslie James.

James was at the time responding to the capture of a Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Coast Guard rank and another accomplice moments after they had robbed an East Coast Demerara mother of three at her home with the use of an unlicensed firearm, just as she returned from a city bank on Tuesday.
According to James, the GPF and the GDF would usually become very concerned when cases such as these involve men and women in uniform, who by virtue of being members of those two organisations demonstrates to the nation that they are part of a mechanism that is designed to combat crime.
Asked if the force will try to acquire from the GDF a list of the ranks who are absent without leave (AWOL) for a lengthy period in an effort to track their movements and with whom they are associating, James said that it is something worth looking at, while commenting that he is confident that the GDF itself would be doing its own work to track its AWOL ranks.
On Tuesday the police arrested two men, Trillion Munroe of Tucber Park, New Amsterdam and Kevin David, after they robbed 37-year-old Jasdai Persaud, also known as Nalani Mohamed, of 45 Cherry Field La Bonne Intention, East Coast Demerara, shortly after she returned from a city bank.
Kevin David was identified as a Guyana Defence Force Coast Guard rank who has been absent without leave (AWOL) for some time before his arrest on Tuesday.
Munroe and David, at gunpoint, robbed the mother of three of a bag containing approximately $750,000 causing her to raise an alarm. The woman’s husband and other relatives responded and shots were fired in their direction by the pillion rider on the motorcycle.
However, the unrelenting family members and other relatives gave chase and rammed a car into the motorcycle they were riding, causing them to fall over. One of the men was pinned by the car while the other was pitched several metres away and lay in an unconscious state as the police were summoned.
When the police arrived a search of the men was conducted and the bag containing the cash was recovered; the police also retrieved an unlicensed .32 revolver with four live rounds, a spent shell and a GDF identification card.
Meanwhile, on Wednesday police sources confirmed that the injured bandit who was hospitalised on Tuesday was still being treated at the Georgetown Public Hospital under police guard. His condition was reported as semi-stable by persons who are close to the investigation.