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He was responding to Thursday’s daring armed robbery in which a lone gunman lifted $16.9M in cash from staffers of Toolsie Persaud Limited (TPL).
Urling said the recent security seminar held collaboratively between the GCCI and the Guyana Association of Private Security Organisations (GAPSO) addressed those issues, and the attendance was very good.
Urling said the Guyana Police Force was well represented at the seminar, as was the Joint services, but a notable absentee was Acting Police Commissioner Leroy Brumell, because his input was necessary to get information on the police strategy to tackle the crime situation.
He noted that, in future, such seminars would have present the Minister of Home Affairs and the Acting Police Commissioner and his team for dialogue, since some private sector entities feel that certain criminal elements have targeted them for armed robbery.
Urling pointed out that the prospect of armed robbery being committed on any business entity is a real threat, in light of recent armed robberies perpetrated on business entities, and he was not exaggerating the situation.
Urling said, “It is happening (to) the private sector, and we need our police force and the MoHA (to be) on top of (the situation), and that’s the reason why we had this presentation here (today) yesterday to help enhance the capacity of the security agency in Guyana.”
The GCCI would try to get other agencies to come on board to assist the CPG and the MoHA to fight crime, Urling added, as he said the GCCI would employ its usual strategy of communicating its security initiatives in brochures and pamphlets.
He said that, within a month’s time, recommendations coming out of the seminar would be ready for distribution online to the private sector, and the GCCI would continue to work hand in hand with the police and other agencies in the fight against crime.
