THE Guyana Police Force (GPF) in response to an article published in the Kaieteur News edition of April 5, 2015, under the caption “Ex-cops, ex-soldier paid to murder GGMC engineer” said the information peddled by the newspaper is false.In the article it is alleged that police investigators have received information that a businessman with ties to the mining sector had recruited a former army intelligence rank and two ex-policemen to kill Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) engineer, Trevor Abrams, who was shot and killed while driving a motor vehicle along the roadway at Diamond, EBD, on February 27, 2015.
The release added that it is claimed in the article that this information was provided to the police by one of two men who were arrested in a house at Diamond, EBD, recently, in which a firearm and ammunition were found. The men have been charged and are at present on remand in the Georgetown Prisons.

However, GPF categorically refutes the allegation that its investigators have received such information from either of the two men as the investigations continue.

Noting that this inaccurate information in the Kaieteur News has been attributed to “top police sources”, the Guyana Police Force wishes to remind media operatives that the authorised persons within the Police Force from whom information on criminal investigations can be sought are the Commissioner of Police, the Assistant Commissioner ‘Law Enforcement’, the Public Relations and Press Officer and the respective Divisional Commander, police said.