THE Guyana Police Force is working on several measures that will bring group medical insurance on stream for serving members. 

This was announced by Commissioner of Police Seelall Persaud while addressing senior and junior officers of the Force last week at the annual First Aid Competition.
Efforts to get the Commissioner of Police to comment further on this initiative were futile, but this newspaper has been reliably informed that the group medical insurance under consideration would also include the immediate family of ranks.

MEDICAL CLINIC
Another step forward, according to Commissioner Persaud, is that very soon police ranks would have access to a medical clinic which would be operated out of the Force Training Complex at Young and Camp Streets in Georgetown.
The clinic would be for junior ranks but a special day would be set aside for senior officers also. However, it is not clear if the clinic would also be providing a service to the immediate relatives of serving members but the discussions on the mater are still engaging the management of the force.
Meanwhile, the police management is working with its medical partners to have an annual medical check-up of each rank and when the medical insurance scheme comes on stream that annual check-up would be complemented.
According to the Top Cop the annual medical check-ups would be covered by the Force Group Insurance which would be covering the associated costs and medications as well as other medical needs.

CONTRIBUTIONS
Still to be finalized, however, is the contribution to the scheme which ranks would be asked to make in order to cover their level of medical access. It was also not yet determined if signing up for the Force Medical Insurance Scheme would be compulsory.

ANNUAL PHYSICAL
Moreover, the Police Commissioner said that each rank, regardless of their position, would be subjected to an annual physical and those who fall short of the expectations would be given time to reach the requirements.
He said that these are all moves being adopted by the administration of the Guyana Police Force to ensure that police ranks are more fit and healthy and capable of providing a better service to the communities in which they serve.