IN an effort at instituting sweeping reforms of the Guyana Police Force (GPF), the Ministry of Home Affairs has employed a high-level team of 10 civilian professionals to form a Strategic Management Department (SMD) which is tasked with overseeing the implementation of the Force’s strategic plan.

This team of civilian professionals will work alongside members of the GPF in addressing the key strategic priorities laid out in the Force’s strategic plan. According to a statement from the newly formed SMD, the ten civilian professionals forming the Strategic Management Department are from a variety of academic disciplines, and were carefully selected by an esteemed panel of individuals from within the private and public sectors.
The SMD, headed by Patrick Mentore, is expected to help optimise the collective performance of the GPF, guiding it towards significant organisational renewal and change. The ten civilians chosen to be part of the SMD are: Patrick Mentore – Head of SMD, Rosanne Purnwasie – Team Leader, Mona Bynoe – Strategic Planning Officer, Kenneth Bentinck – Project Coordinator, Hermanetta Andrews – Monitoring & Evaluation Coordinator, Enid Thom-Alleyne – Risk Management Officer, Richard Francois – Change Communication Officer, Trovana Azeez – Change Facilitation Officer, Shameza David – Research Officer, and Ian James – Analyst.
Mentore, in expressing his every confidence in the Team’s ability at achieving all performance targets set out in the strategic plan, said: “The Guyana Police Force is positioning itself to become a modern police institution in Guyana. With its strategic plan in place and the establishment of this new strategic management department, along with the resolute commitment of the senior management of the Force, I am very confident that together we can transform the Force into a modern police entity.”
Mentore also stated that “this strategic management team is especially convinced that all strategic objectives and goals will be achieved with efficiency and effectiveness.”
Citizens, he said, must be patient and give the strategic management team time and space to do its work. “We have a herculean task ahead of us. Changing an ingrained organisational culture that has been in place for decades will not happen overnight. But we stand ready and committed to be the drivers of change this Force needs,” said the new SMD head.