MEMBERS of the B-3 Division of the Community Policing Group (CPG) continue to work in collaboration with the Guyana Police Force (GPF) in an effort to reduce the incidents of crimes in Corentyne, Berbice area.

Liaison Officer Radica Ramanandan told this publication that on November 2, 2014 they received information following the break and enter and theft of 11 computers from the Line Path Secondary School and managed to retrieve one at a residence in East Canje, Cumberland, Berbice.

Several CPG members including Ramanandan, Public Relations Officer, Latchman Narine and Chairman Abdool Nasar went to Reliance Police Station where an officer was told about the information received and volunteered two ranks to accompany them to the house they were told contained one of the stolen computers.

There she explained that the occupants handed over the computer which belongs to the Line Path Secondary School and claimed they were given it by a relative and were not aware it was unlawfully obtained.

The computer was lodged with the Reliance Police Station and subsequently four of the six suspects were charged when they appeared at the Whim Magistrate’s Court and were placed on $250,000 bail each.
Police have recovered four of the stolen computers.

COMBINE BATTERY

In a separate incident, on October 26, 2014 members of the B-3 Division received a report from rice farmer Rajkapoor Dyaljee stating that his combine was tampered with and several parts including the battery was removed from his residence at No. 68 Village, Corentyne, Berbice.

Ramanandan explained that members of the No. 56, No. 74 and No. 65 CPG teamed up after they got information that the suspects, who tampered with Dyaljee’s combine tossed it into a trench at No. 68 Backdam and visited the area.

There, she said, they retrieved the combine battery in company with ranks from the No.51 Police Station and lodged it with the police.

However, after a probe the two suspects, who were fingered in the incident from the said village, fled the jurisdiction one week after.

STOLEN PADDY

Ramanandan also reported that on November 1, 2014 B-3 Division CPG members were on a mobile patrol at No.64 and No.65 area at about 7:00pm when a farmer, Patrick Da Silva, of No.64 Village informed them that he suspected that an employee had taken away three bags of paddy from his premises.

They acted on the information and went to the home of the suspect and confronted him with the report after which he confessed and was handed over to the Springlands Police Station, where the three bags of paddy retrieved were lodged.