| Khurshid Sattaur, the Police Commissioner playing tennis, and justice |
| Friday, 29 January 2010 | |
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By Freddie Kissoon In a forthcoming column, I will hint at possible investigation by the US Government into what is taking place in Guyana. At last, the US Government may take a look. The news is pretty optimistic. So wait for my announcement on this page. Why would the US Government decide to look into what is taking place here? Very few human beings in this world are stupid enough to do things that are egregiously unacceptable to the human spirit and are nasty violations of the laws and openly do it. Human beings are not so unintelligent. If they were, civilization simply would have died hundreds of years ago. In Guyana, civilization limps along. Horrible illegalities are just never hidden. They are openly displayed for all citizens to see. The trouble with immoral power in Guyana is that for some reason of psychic contortion, the power-wielders just don’t hide their injustices. They simply put them on display. No wonder the US Government will soon zero in. I am not going to state which section of the US Government may soon probe the sordid abuse of power in this land when I write that column. I am not in the business of sharing information with the Government of Guyana.Let me tell you about one aspect of brutal unfairness that goes on this country. If you travel around Georgetown, you will see some anti-crime policemen clothed in black uniforms on motor-cycles. Often when you see them, they are engaged in traffic investigations. It is exasperating to see what these guys do on the streets of Georgetown. You feel comfortable when you see them because you have an immediate sense of security, but they spend a lot of time on traffic situations. When an anti-crime policeman does the traffic round, he has to accompany the driver to the station and give a statement. He can’t just tell the person, “I see you went through the amber, go to the station.” He has to be in attendance to give the station personnel the details. That is time lost in fighting crime. Yesterday at 16.00 hours, I was on Bourda Street near to North Road buying tomatoes and sweet peppers. Two anti-crime personnel rode up on their motor-cycles and ordered a stall holder to drive his car to Eve Leary. I spoke to the accused and he told me that he was stopped for the tint. I spoke to one of the officers to inform him I was making an intervention because I wanted to see that the man’s rights were not violated. The officer was polite and accepted my explanation. The accused indicated that he couldn’t leave his stall unattended. Acting on my understanding of the traffic regulations, I asked that the gentleman, after inspection of his documents, be summoned and charged the next day, because it was a traffic offence. The ranks didn’t accept this. I called Superintendent Daniels of Traffic at Brickdam. He said they have to order the man to Brickdam not Eve Leary. They agreed. Right at that moment, a car passed with a tint that was immensely darker. I insisted that they stop that driver. They refused. This was blatant unfairness. I called the Commissioner, Henry Greene. I told him two of his ranks were engaged in unbecoming conduct. He said he was busy playing table tennis at Eve Leary and cannot talk, but I should go to Brickdam and solicit an investigation. I did that. Sergeant Layne of Traffic at Brickdam called a meeting with the two ranks and me. Her ruling was that I was wrong to request that they summon the driver the next day because a tint violation carries arrest there and then. I then apologized to the two policemen. I did so on the understanding that Sergeant Layne was right. But she conceded that I could take up the matter further with the two policemen refusing to stop the other violator. Here were two policemen engaged in a totally unacceptable act of unfairness right in front of a media operative. I went out of the station to my car and saw a BMW with all windows darker than the bottomless pits of hell. It is owned by a businessman whose place is next to the station. I turned right back into Brickdam station and asked them to make an arrest. I didn’t succeed. Can Khurshid Sattaur tell me why the GRA officials are registering heavily tinted vehicle at the Licence Office on Smyth Street? There are hundreds of them on the roads. How was the tennis, Mr. Greene? Did you win? |
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