Linden Police Scouts Movement gets $200,000
Commissioner of Police, Mr. Henry Greene, has thrown his support behind two initiatives he spearheaded through the E and F Divisions in Linden when last Saturday he was in the town for the inauguration of the Linden Police Scouts Movement and the Linden Station Management Committee.

Police Commissioner Henry Greene addressing the inauguration in Linden.

The ceremony was held on Banks DIH Tarmac on Republic Avenue.

According to the Commissioner, two months ago he challenged members of the E and F Division of Linden to form a Station Management Committee and a Youth Movement.

Giving his remarks on the establishment of these two groups, Commissioner Greene congratulated the organisers for making it possible, and he congratulated the Linmine Drum Corps for its performance.

The Commissioner announced an award of $200,000 which will be going to the coffers of the Linden Police Scouts Movement from the Guyana Police Force.

Commissioner Greene then singled out the Linden community also for its support.

On a serious note, Greene, who said that there were other station management committees in other parts of Guyana, said that their duties include ensuring an effective monitoring system by both police and civilians.”

He told the gathering, “You have a role to play and any policeman who makes you believe that you don’t have a role to play is misguided.

“We are here to serve you. We are to work with you; the force was created to serve the public, not the public created to serve the force. And therefore station management comes in to assist us and effectively monitor what we are doing at the Police Station.”

From this standpoint the Commissioner said, “Secondly they (the committees) enable us to produce greater efficiency and effectiveness through help and support from members of the community. On the scouts’ movement, Greene said the aim is in search of a drive to find productive use of the energies of young people, to provide activities to channel youths in the right direction. And the end result is to forge better relations between the force and the people as he called for the creation of more youth groups to be formed in Linden.

Wrapping up his charge, Commissioner Greene said, “This project is hand in glove, police and the people. Police working with the people, we can’t work without you.”

Regional Chairman Mortimer Mingo, in his remarks, said that this initiative is a good one and it is well embraced by the RDC. He said the fact of the matter is that there are people who make up this Station Management Committee from diverse areas in the communities, from the business sector, from large companies in the town and the ordinary citizens who have a yearning and a passion to see that law and order is being dispensed in the manner in which it ought to be.
For this Mingo said it is commendable.