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BREAKING NEWS: Cocaine goes missing from Police Headquarters

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By Leroy Smith

The Guyana Police Force has initiated an investigation into the disappearance of a quantity of cocaine from the Narcotics Branch of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID), located at the Police Headquarters, Eve Leary, Georgetown.

The News Room was reliably informed that the cocaine was recently tendered as evidence in court where a woman was sentenced to four years in jail.

However, the matter was still under investigation as the police were looking for the “recruiter,” but before the police could have laid their hands on the recruiter, someone laid their hands on the cocaine and removed it from its place of “safekeeping.”

Police Commissioner (ag), David Ramnarine

It is unclear how successful the police will be at prosecuting the person, if he or she is found, given that the cocaine has to be presented in court as part of the evidence to support the police case.

Police Commissioner (ag), David Ramnarine confirmed to News Room Wednesday that the Police Office of Professional Responsibility is looking into the matter.

The Police Commissioner refused to confirm whether it is “cocaine” that is missing. However, several other reliable sources within the Police Force confirmed to the News Room it is cocaine that is missing.

The police sources were very reluctant to say exactly what matter the missing cocaine is connected to or who the person is, that was sentenced recently.

However, based on the News Room’s record, the last person to be sentenced to jail for four years for cocaine possession was a 59-year-old woman, who was also fined more than six million dollars.

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Billy Ram Balgobin posted:

We can say for certain that police investigation has not improved under this new government. 

That's a lie. The success rate of solving crimes has improved tremendously since Blanhum assumed the Crime Chief duties.

Mars
Nehru posted:

BREAKING NEWS: Cocaine goes missing from Police Headquarters

However, the matter was still under investigation as the police were looking for the “recruiter,” but before the police could have laid their hands on the recruiter, someone laid their hands on the cocaine and removed it from its place of “safekeeping.”

When an investigation is about the "recruiter" the drugs disappear.

FM
Mars posted:
Billy Ram Balgobin posted:

We can say for certain that police investigation has not improved under this new government. 

That's a lie. The success rate of solving crimes has improved tremendously since Blanhum assumed the Crime Chief duties.

Police incompetence in solving crime in Guyana has not improved under this government and that is irrefutable. 

Billy Ram Balgobin
Billy Ram Balgobin posted:
Mars posted:
Billy Ram Balgobin posted:

We can say for certain that police investigation has not improved under this new government. 

That's a lie. The success rate of solving crimes has improved tremendously since Blanhum assumed the Crime Chief duties.

Police incompetence in solving crime in Guyana has not improved under this government and that is irrefutable. 

Irrefutable by clowns like you who spout PPP nonsense but the statistics show a completely different picture. They've even solved a few cold cases from the PPP era that were swept under the rug.

GPF’s improved ability to solve cases due to more training


GINA, GUYANA, Monday, August 29, 2016

The Guyana Police Force’s (GPF) ability to solve serious crimes has improved by some 58 percent.  Acting Police Commissioner, David Ramnarine credited this success to increased capacity and capability in the criminal investigations department.

“Our clear- up percentage in terms of us being able to solve the crime, prepare a file, send it for advice and have a charge placed in the court, we’ve now moved to some 58 percent from 20 and 25 percent,” the Commissioner acting said during a recent press briefing.

Acting Police Commissioner, David Ramnarine

Acting Police Commissioner, David Ramnarine

The acting Commissioner pointed out that there has been increased training for Crime Scene Investigators and technicians within the Criminal Investigation Department (CID). The GPF has benefited from training from the Canadian Justice Education Society (JES) and British International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Programme (ICITAP).

“We have a major crimes investigation management unit that is doing excellent work. We have the first of its kind in the Caribbean, a forensic video analysis unit, and we have recently increased some 100 ranks in the CID department,” Ramnarine pointed out.

“We recognise the demand made on the investigations department,” Commissioner Ramnarine added.

The acting Commissioner explained that this increase in capability has renewed public confidence in the GPF, “That is why a number of persons who have been victims of serious crimes sometimes decades ago, years ago, believe and come to us and ask us to re-open old cases,” Ramnarine added.

In July, Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum announced the re-opening of several cold cases including high profile ones like those of the Monica Reece, Trevor Rose and Sheema Mangar cases.

 

 

Mars

Even the PPP's Guyana Times and Ramkarran have been praising Blanhum.

http://guyanatimesgy.com/blanh...essful-crime-chiefs/

Blanhum one of the most successful Crime Chiefs

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In recent memory

 

– Ramkarran

Current Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum is one of the most successful Crime Chiefs to have served in the Guyana Police Force in recent memory. And he has created a reputation that soars higher every time he comes under public scrutiny.

This is according to Senior Counsel Ralph Ramkarran, who also had this to say of

Chief Wendell Blanhum

Blanhum: “The Crime Chief does not court the press, but every time he comes under public scrutiny, his reputation soars. He spoke truth to power, and was quite clear that the story of the complainant Andrif Gillard was ‘inherently incredible.’ The results show that he is one of the most successful Crime Chiefs in recent memory. Even though Guyana still lives in fear of crime, there would be much public concern if there is second-guessing of the work of the Crime Chief.”

Blanhum has told the CoI into the plot to assassinate President Granger that on March 29 he received a call from the Ministry of Public Security informing him of the alleged plot. The caller, a female, told him that Andrif Gillard was at the ministry making the accusations. Blanhum said he immediately made contact with Divisional Commander Clifton Hicken, and because of the nature of the allegations, a decision was taken to have the Major Crimes Unit investigate the matter.

Blanhum said he had received several reports of Gillard frustrating the investigation. He said GPF Legal Adviser Justice Claudette Singh (ret’d) did not recommend any charges to be made in the matter because the evidence was tenuous and there was simply nothing with which to charge anyone.

As his testimony continued, the Crime Chief clashed with Commissioner Slowe when asked whether he had checked to ensure that a record was made of the incident in the ‘A’ Division log. Blanhum said he is not responsible for finding out whether proper records are documented, because he functions at the executive level of the GPF and there are supervisors and other ranks below him who are tasked with those responsibilities.

He also related that he does not find it strange that the men were released less than 24 hours following the commencement of the investigations. Slowe and Blanhum clashed once more when the Commissioner asked the Crime Chief why the matter was not being treated as treasonous. Blanhum replied that the offence was treated as “incitement to commit murder”, although the allegations had implications for the life of the President. He said he relied on facts, and not feelings. Based on legal advice, he said he viewed the information obtained as ‘tenuous,’ and not sufficient to base legal charges. Blanhum expressed satisfaction with the investigation. “The Crime Chief has been rightly praised for his work in the past,” Ramkarran wrote.

He added that Blanhum was only acting on the advice of the Police Legal Adviser, former Justice of Appeal Claudette Singh, who advised that no charges be brought against the accused, Nizam Khan, since the Police have evidence to show that Gillard was making up the story.

“With such conflicting evidence in the Police file, there would have been no hope of a conviction. In fact, based on their investigations, according to the evidence of Corporal Keion Benjamin, the Police concluded that Andrif Gillard should be charged for giving false information to the police,” Ramkarran commented. Since assuming responsibility as Crime Chief, He has reopened several high profile cases, such as the execution of fashion designer Trevor Rose; the 1993 murder case of Monica Reece, and the robbery/murder of Sheema Mangar.

Mashramani Costume Designer and Events Coordinator Trevor Rose was gunned down on January 26, 2014 while sitting in the back seat of a Toyota 212 motor car on the Eccles Public Road, East Bank Demerara (EBD). He had fathered eight children, and the investigations are progressing according to the Police.

Former Demerara Bank employee Sheema Mangar, 20, was the victim of the brutal robbery sometime after 18:00h on September 10, 2010, as she waited for transportation on North Road. She chased the robber, who jumped into the car that hit her down and dragged her from outside the Bedford Methodist Church, at Camp Street and North Road, to the intersection of Camp and Church Streets. She died hours later at St Joseph Mercy Hospital.

The body of 23-year-old security guard Monica Reece was dumped from a speeding pickup in the vicinity of the Geddes Grant building (now Courts) on Main Street, Georgetown on April 9, 1993 (Good Friday night). At the time of the murder, now Minister of Citizenship, Winston Felix, was Crime Chief. He subsequently retired as Commissioner of Police. At that time there was a prime suspect, but he mysteriously vanished.

Blanhum and a team of detectives were able to crack the murder case of Babita Sarjou, in May 2016.

Since Blanhum took the post, the Guyana Police Force (GPF) has been solving a greater percentage of crime.

Mars

PNC bais don't like anything go to waste, why should the allow cocaine to be destroyed when they can flip it for 100% profit. This is the mentality of these crooks in office. 

FM
Drugb posted:

PNC bais don't like anything go to waste, why should the allow cocaine to be destroyed when they can flip it for 100% profit. This is the mentality of these crooks in office. 

There seems to a massive increase of drug peddling under these AFC/PNC crooks. It has reached a point where even police are now stealing and peddling drugs, right under the nose of Guyana's most incompetent Minister and drunkard, Rumjattan.

FM
yuji22 posted:
Drugb posted:

PNC bais don't like anything go to waste, why should the allow cocaine to be destroyed when they can flip it for 100% profit. This is the mentality of these crooks in office. 

There seems to a massive increase of drug peddling under these AFC/PNC crooks. It has reached a point where even police are now stealing and peddling drugs, right under the nose of Guyana's most incompetent Minister and drunkard, Rumjattan.

  Is that denial? You do mean that now the criminals are being caught as opposed to having free reign under the Rat's syndicate.... right?

A
Pointblank posted:

 

Since Blanhum took the post, the Guyana Police Force (GPF) has been solving a greater percentage of crime.

 

Many of those crimes were committed under the PPP.

Stay on topic, the pnc are in control now, this is happening under their watch. During PPP time, the pnc also controlled the police and told them to let the drug runners be as they were getting kickbacks. 

FM
Drugb posted:
Pointblank posted:

 

Since Blanhum took the post, the Guyana Police Force (GPF) has been solving a greater percentage of crime.

 

Many of those crimes were committed under the PPP.

Stay on topic, the pnc are in control now, this is happening under their watch. During PPP time, the pnc also controlled the police and told them to let the drug runners be as they were getting kickbacks. 

You mean to say that the Rat was not the one controlling the drug runnings?

A
Bibi Haniffa posted:
Django posted:

Who ever in GPF,is in charge for safe keeping of seized merchandise ,should face the music,no beating around the bush.

Dream on. That will never happen.

You are saying that because no one ever faced the music under the Rat?

Mitwah
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antabanta posted:
Drugb posted:
Pointblank posted:

 

Since Blanhum took the post, the Guyana Police Force (GPF) has been solving a greater percentage of crime.

 

Many of those crimes were committed under the PPP.

Stay on topic, the pnc are in control now, this is happening under their watch. During PPP time, the pnc also controlled the police and told them to let the drug runners be as they were getting kickbacks. 

You mean to say that the Rat was not the one controlling the drug runnings?

Yall seh de rat is an anti man, now you can't have your cake and eat it too. How the rat gun run drug runnings when he supposedly walk and wine?

FM

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