MINISTER of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan, on Sunday, indicated that he was very surprised at the action of a member of the Guyana Police Force who was caught in the furtherance of a robbery at Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo.

“It happens not only within the Guyana Police Force but elsewhere and the vetting process will have to be reviewed and strengthened and so too will the recruitment process; we have to strengthen these; but even so, the gates are never shut on the greedy,” Ramjattan explained during an invited comment. Friday last, a police constable attached to the Special Branch was among five robbers who invaded the business place of some Chinese nationals at the location mentioned above.

A licenced firearm holder engaged the robbers, shooting one dead and injuring another while two others were nabbed at a police roadblock at Den Amstel as they were about to make their way back to Georgetown. The robbers including one female hailed from communities along the East Coast Demerara and Georgetown. “Well you know this has taken me by surprise, such an officer doing that and I think of course we will have to take a second look at some of these things. It does seem that there are come characters within the police force especially that we really need to weed out, but I have said this before,” stated the security minister.