/PG/ Georgetown [Guyana] (Signal High) for BadCop.Online —– Calls for the sacking of the Guyana Police Commissioner, Clifton Hicken (image above), are echoing loudly in the halls of power as the head of the Working People’s Alliance (WPA), Dr. David Hinds, is calling on the government to act. Hinds is also demanding his replacement be mandated to make regular appearances before the security sectoral committee. According to Hinds, the little credibility the Guyana Police Force (GPF) had evaporated with the death of 11-year-old Adriana Younge.
“For the WPA, the Guyana Police Force is beyond simple band aids and tinkering. It is a system that must be uprooted. The rot in that institution has consumed the entire security landscape. The police force is no longer capable of discharging its mandate to serve and protect the citizenry. It has become a cancer in the system that needs to be cured if our country is to live as a free and democratic society,” Dr Hinds said.
Hinds sees the GPF as a clear and present danger to peace, justice, stability, and democratic order. The WPA is calling for a complete overhaul to the system. It wants senior commanders to resign or be removed, asserting the command structure must be disentangled from the political executive. Hinds is demanding that the members of the police should undergo rigorous training in modern policing, and expanded to include Guyana’s history, sociology, human rights, and the constitution.
Guyana is one of many countries in the world with a history of corruption that is taking steps to clean up.
Signal High will follow this story as it progresses.
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