POLICE Commissioner Henry Greene yesterday lashed out at the protesting trio, former treason accused Mark Benschop, and trade unionists Lincoln Lewis and Norris Witter, declaring that they should bring any evidence of corruption they may have to the Police.
Greene was making reference to allegations being made by the trio in a series of illegal protest actions around the city.
Addressing policemen and women at the Eve Leary Officers’ Mess on Young Street, the Commissioner said the trio is trying to make out to the public that the Police are not doing what they are supposed to be doing.
Benschop and his two co-conspirators, who were all arrested and slapped with charges for their illegal picketing following their second such protest yesterday in front of the Police Headquarters mere hours after the awards ceremony, are alleging mass corruption within the Force and the Government, and which the Police is allegedly perpetuating.
They are also calling for investigations to be conducted into several unsolved killings, with particular emphasis on that of former journalist Ronald Waddell, as well as into allegations of the Government’s collusion with self-confessed drug trafficker Roger Khan.
Commissioner Greene yesterday declared, “Let them produce what they have to prove to this public that I have evidence to go ahead and do any form of investigation”.
“We have never shirked our duties and we never will.”
The three men are purporting that different sets of rules apply for the public and police, but Greene yesterday refuted this, stating that the Force has always taken a very strong stance when it comes to corruption within its ranks.
He pointed out that a number of ranks have been investigated, some arrested and charged when found in breach of the law like any normal citizen.