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Police have arrested a 39-year-old ‘C’ Field Sophia man who tried to bribe a policeman with half a million dollars on Friday to release his 19-year-old son.
According to a police report, the teenager was earlier arrested for unlawful possession of a firearm and ammunition. The teen is one of two suspects who had escaped from police on Tuesday last, dropping their firearm in the process.
,The 19-year-old was later caught and arrested when his father was busted in a sting operation, bribing the policeman.
On Tuesday last, at about 09:30hrs, ranks on a motorcycle, conducting patrol on Vlissengen Road, observed the suspects proceeding in front of them on a CG motorcycle without the rear registration number plate and summoned them to stop.
However, instead of doing so, the pillion rider quickly took out a firearm from his waist and tossed it in the parapet and they sped away. The ranks promptly retrieved the weapon which was found to be a .380 pistol with five live rounds and went in pursuit of the men. The weapon and ammunition have since been lodged.
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For every good cop in the Guyana Police Force that may be doing their job with integrity, there are many others who do not have integrity. Two weeks ago, I was visiting Guyana; on traveling in a taxi on the EBD road, the taxi driver was stopped by a police patrol car; there were three police officers in the vehicle two males and a female. They claimed that the taxi driver ran a red light, which was unbelievable. I did not see him do that. They told him he needed to drive down to the Ruimveldt Police station; of course, in the exchange the driver was defenseless and I tried to plea to them for him.
The conversation continued outside my ear shot, and very soon thereafter the driver came back to his car, got some money to give the police officers and then he was free to go. I was alarmed, shocked and disappointed with the conduct of these officers, but I was told this is a normal practice for many Guyanese police officers running the beat on the roads of Guyana.
Government, please help rid the police force of the bad eggs, recruit new people, and pay them a living wage so they don’t have to take the wages of taxi drivers.