HOME Affairs Minister Clement Rohee has disclosed that he has been receiving several prank and threatening calls ever since the public disclosure of his mobile number.
However, he said, while these things do happen, it is the price that “you have to pay”.

“So anybody could call the number these days because it was given wide publicity recently on the television and in the newspapers,” Mr. Rohee pointed out.
At the time, he was delivering remarks at the recommissioning of the Cove and John Police Station, East Coast Demerara, which also serves as the headquarters for the Guyana Police Force ‘E’ Division.
Speaking Wednesday, Rohee also said that, while he receives the threatening and prank calls, there are some genuine calls which are placed to the mobile number where persons seek to raise issues in relation to the GPF and the Home Affairs Ministry.
Recently, the cell phone number being used by the minister was revealed during the sitting of the Commission of Inquiry into the shooting deaths of the Linden protesters against the electricity tariffs.
Yesterday morning, when this publication contacted Minister Rohee and asked if he has been attempting to trace or track the prank and threatening calls being placed to his mobile phone, he responded in the negative.
He said he was not interested in the callers and was not going to allow them to bother him.
Meanwhile, Minister Rohee used the Wednesday occasion to share, with the ranks gathered there, a recent phone call which he received from a citizen who reported on the manner in which the police were dealing with a matter that concerned the citizen.
Rohee said the man related that he placed a call to a police station where he identified himself and, when he sought to question the person at the other end about the status of the investigation into a missing item, the rank attempted to challenge his authority to do so.
Modernisation
According to the minister, the modernisation of the GPF must place greater emphasis as it relates to public relations and how the police deal with the public.
Rohee told the ranks it is his view that, in the transformation process of the GPF, they must begin to put themselves in the shoes of other persons when they are affected by certain circumstances.
He reminded of the old sayings “what goes around comes around, today for me tomorrow for you” and said, while someone may lose something small today and fail to muster the professional and appropriate assistance from the police or someone else, tomorrow or sometime along the line, the police or an individual who failed to provide the necessary help may be in similar need to address a concern of his or hers.
The minister cautioned that public relations is very important and critical in the modernising of the GPF  and anyone who thinks of it in a police station must go in the direction Guyana is going.