FORMER Head of the SWAT unit, Deputy Superintendent Motie Dookie has been posted temporarily to the Strategic Planning Unit of the Guyana Police Force as investigations continue after he was busted with 30 cases of Johnnie Walker Whisky on Saturday.
This was confirmed by acting Commissioner of Police David Ramnarine during a press conference on Friday in the Commissioner’s Conference Room, Police Headquarters, Eve Leary. Ramnarine said when he contacted Dookie’s supervisor, it was related that the deputy superintendent had acted on his own and as such will face the consequences.
The Commissioner (ag) said Dookie will be handed over to the Guyana Revenue Authority for questioning by the law-enforcement body as investigations continue.
Meanwhile, Ramnarine said he was bombarded with calls from persons in society requesting that the force take it lightly on Dookie.
‘‘I received over a dozen calls from supposedly right-thinking people who were concerned about when the man would be released and ‘why yall don’t give the man a break’ and all kind of lawlessness they were telling me, believe it or leave it,” Ramnarine disclosed “That is the society we have. On the one hand, they want to see a professional police force – they want a police force that delivers a higher or a better quality of service – but at the same time, they are indifferent to gross wrongdoings. That is the reality of the society we live in comrade.”
This is even as the other persons who were in the vehicle at the time with Dookie when the whisky was discovered, have been the subject of constant grilling by members of the GRA anti-smuggling and enforcement arm. Dookie on the other hand has been changing his story constantly as it relates to his involvement in the transporting of, or facilitating the movement of the smuggled alcohol.
The senior police officer is already on record as admitting to ranks on the night in question, that he was aware of the presence of a quantity of alcohol in the vehicle of which he was a passenger. Dookie was supposed to be confined to the police station on the night in question, but was allowed to leave during the course of the night and return the following morning. Sources within the investigative arm of the police force are contending that Dookie’s absence from the station might have been to facilitate the clearing of his tracks in the alleged illegal operation, in which he is said to have been involved for some time now.
