Matter engaging police OPR

THE Police have reported that the matter involving the alleged disappearance of from a canter truck while the occupants were being engaged by the police on Monday has been forwarded to the Police Officer for Professional Responsibility.In a press release on Wednesday, the police further stated that the description given by the porters on the truck of the men who claimed to be police officers does not match the description of any police rank stationed at the Sparendaam Police Station who were on duty there at the time the matter was reported.

This newspaper first broke the story of the missing money from the vehicle which came up to a police operation in front of the Sparendaam Police Station, where the occupants claimed that they were robbed of money from the vehicle by two men who said they were police ranks.
On Monday the porters told the police that the two persons who showed up at the vehicle were wearing shirt jacks and indicated to the two persons who were left in the vehicle after the driver was called away by the police that they were wanted by the police.
The owner of the money told reporters that the two men who have been working with him for years have never stolen from him and that he would usually entrust them with large amounts of cash to transact his business.
The press release by the police also took a swipe at the headline carried in this publication claiming thet it gave the impression that the police took the money.
The police press release identified the driver of the truck who was initially called away from the vehicle by a traffic rank was identified as a Corentyne businessman.
The man is in the business of retailing and wholesaling cooking oil on behalf of his brother to businesses in Georgetown, and when the incident occurred, he had completed his business in the city and was heading back to Berbice.
At the time the money was taken from the vehicle, the police said four porters were present on the canter and one reportedly reported in his statement that he saw one of the men who identified themselves as police ranks heading to a parked car with the bag of money.
The police are very suspicious about the report since the man did not raise an alarm. Additionally while the men drove almost 40 miles to report the missing money, passing two police stations and one police outpost, the man who saw the money bag being taken away still did not mention this to his co-workers, but chose to put it in his statement at Cove and John Police Station.