DEPUTY Police Commissioner, Law Enforcement, Seelall Persaud, yesterday said that following the execution-style killing of Detective Constable # 20682, Jirbahan Dianand, 23, at Jackson Creek public road, Springlands, Corentyne on September 21st 2012, police are looking for another suspect. He said the three others who were in their custody have since been released on bail pending completion of investigations. Constable Dianand, well-known for his work in making many drug busts, was shot twice in the head while he was in his motor car, PHH 6528.

Police report that his body had been found by passersby slumped over the steering wheel of his car at about 05:30 hrs on Friday, and they had informed the police.  

Constable Dianand had been stationed at the Moleson Creek Police Outpost, and had been attached to the Narcotics Section.

A post-mortem done by Government Pathologist, Dr. Vivekanand Brijmohan gave the cause of Dianand’s death as being due to gunshot injuries to the head.

The police surmise that Constable Dianand had been killed by someone he had known, since he had been shot twice and that from inside the car.

Deputy Commissioner Persaud said, “It seems to suggest that it’s someone that he knows… From the circumstances and the way the car was, he wasn’t driving at the time. The person seemed to be shooting from inside the car, as against from outside.”

Persaud pointed out that the vehicle’s windows had been wound up and the windscreen had not been damaged, indications that his assailant had been inside the vehicle at the time Dianand had been shot and killed. Persaud also said that two warheads have been recovered, but no spent shells have been found.