CITY Constabulary officers have been compromising the City Council’s decisions with some minibus drivers as it relates to efforts to bring the lawlessness at many bus parks under control.Georgetown Mayor Patricia Chase-Green complained about the issue at the Council’s most recent statutory meeting, noting that the practice by the officers often leads to confusion at the minibus parks.

Chase-Green said those who are found guilty of compromising the decisions of the Council will be dealt with accordingly.

“If you look at the records, there are allegations that constables are not professional in the execution of their duties. You can’t have your foot soldiers out there not carrying out the duties of the Council,” she offered.

According to the Mayor, the issue was raised again recently when certain bus drivers, who felt they were not being afforded the same privileges as others, reported the issue to the City Council.

“Those things have to be corrected,” she posited.

It has been observed that some minibus operators are not conducting their business under the new guidelines that were recently established.

Some refuse to join the line of empty minibuses and wait for their turn, while others offload passengers where they are not supposed to.

Meanwhile, scores of vendors who turned up at a City Hall meeting accused city constabulary officers of making their lives miserable when they refuse to pay them a bribe.

The vendors of the various municipal markets in Georgetown continue to complain about the harassment they regularly experience at the hands of the officers, but even so, they prefer not to make reports as they claim that those in the higher authority also accept bribes.

Chief Constable Andrew Foo is adamant, though, that those vendors who are affected by bribery on the part of the constabulary officers ought to lodge official reports, and he guaranteed that such will be investigated.

Provision is made in the law that even those who give a bribe can be charged, Foo told the Chronicle when contacted on Sunday. Meanwhile, the Chief Constable said the law is very clear on the issue of bribery.

Foo said vendors need to understand if any officer demands a bribe, they have a responsibility to report it.

“But they don’t come in. There is an agreement between the vendors and officers, but whenever the officers have to act, the vendors come up with all sorts of allegations. Now that there is a large-scale movement of people, they are now raising allegations. People who give and receive a bribe can be charged. But no one is coming forward to make official reports. They go to the politicians instead to lodge their complaints, but that’s not right. So it remains just an allegation if no one comes in. Why do the vendors do business at the level of a constabulary officer?” Foo questioned.