Georgetown: A police sergeant who allegedly conspired with others to forge 13 questionnaires for persons who did not write the drivers’ examinations was on Monday charged and place on $1.3M when he appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts slapped with 12 fraud charges.
The sergeant, Alfred Park, 50, of Diamond Housing Scheme East Bank Demerara (EBD) denied all of the charges when it was read to him by Senior Magistrate Judy Latchman.
Park was represented by Attorney-at-law Patrice Henry and police prosecutor made no objections to bail being granted, the case was will continue of August 27, 2018.
Initial investigations by police found “massive irregularities” in the driver’s theoretical examination which took place at the Felix Austin Police College, Georgetown.
The Police said the investigation was launched after two pastors who supervised the examination reported the irregularities.
The pastors reported that 174 persons were registered to write the examination but only 106 showed up. However, once the exams were over, 207 scripts were submitted.
“Initial enquiries revealed that a Senior Subordinate Officer who was mandated to oversee this theoretical examination in collaboration with two Pastors from the COPS and Faith Community Network partnership with the Guyana Police Force, along with three junior ranks, left the examination venue shortly after the examination commenced and did not return,” Police stated in a release to the press.
Police said that a Junior Subordinate Officer who ought not to have been at the examination venue, presented himself, spent some time and left.
The three Constables left the examination venue prior to the counting of the examination scripts by members of the COPS and Faith Community Network.
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