THE Police Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) has completed their investigations into the matter involving 15-year-old Alex Griffith who was reportedly shot in his mouth by a cadet officer attached to ‘C’ Division.

The file was forwarded to the Chairman of the Police Complaints Authority (PCA), retired Justice, Cecil Kennard Wednesday.

According to reports, Griffith, of East La Penitence, was accused by the officer’s sister of robbing her while she was walking through the area. The incident reportedly occurred just after 21:00 hrs on Wednesday, April 30.

Griffith spent a few days at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation nursing the gunshot wound to his mouth, while the cadet officer was under close arrest.
The Guyana Chronicle was reliably informed that the teen was shot by the police officer who was taking ranks to the location where the suspects in the robbery might have been hiding. The female who was robbed reportedly had something sprayed in her face by her attackers before they pounced on her.

The cadet officer, who visited the home of the teen, informed the child’s mother that he had come to interview Griffith in connection with a robbery which he had witnessed. Griffith, however, informed the police that he knew nothing of the robbery, except that it occurred.

Meanwhile, Marcel Griffith, Alex’s mother, was reportedly offered one million dollars to settle the matter, but she maintains that the money is not going to cause her to turn a blind eye to what the police officer did to her son.

Further, the woman said, no form of compensation would be able to repair the trauma and injury caused to her son by the bullet of an arrogant police officer who allowed his emotions to direct his actions.

Speaking with reporters after her son had been discharged from hospital, Marcel Griffith said she prefers that the police officer face the full force of the law.

The woman has said that the pace at which investigations into the matter are proceeding and the complexion of the probe leave much to be desired, and she is not pleased.
Written By Asif Hakim