THE Guyana Police Force is responding to an article published in the Kaieteur News on Thursday November 27, 2014, under the caption ‘Police offer no help to drowning man – La Penitence residents say’.

The Guyana Police Force wishes to clarify that at about 18:40 hrs on Wednesday November 26, 2014, a female resident of the East La Penitence Squatting Area reported to the police at the East La Penitence Police Station that an unidentified man of East Indian descent was in the canal south of the station and shouting for “help”.
Several police ranks including a Subordinate Officer responded. With the use of flashlights, as it was dark, and assistance from residents of the community who were met at the scene, the police made efforts to locate the man in the canal. However, their efforts were unsuccessful, even though a member of the community also went into the canal and carried out a search.
The body of the so far unidentified man has been recovered in the canal at about 07:00 hrs yesterday (Friday November 28, 2014), and is at the Lyken Funeral Parlour.
Investigations are in progress.

IVELAW WHITTAKER
Public Relations and Press Officer