Georgetown : Community Policing Groups (CPGs) from various areas of Regions Five and Six (Berbice Areas) have been urged by Minister of Public Security and Second-Vice President Khemraj Ramjattan to seek to initiate self financing interventions aimed at addressing stability, and security within their respective communities.
Engaging different sections of the CPGs in Regions Five and Six in meetings at the Corriverton City Council, the Chesney Multi-purpose Complex Building and the Fort Wellington Police Station Canteen, the Minister noted that the policing groups can even help in raising funds for interventions such as a playground, or for buying sports equipment, a lot of the same requests, for which they are seeking to get government’s intervention. He further pointed out that these fund raising exercises can be coordinated with overseas based Guyanese that hail from their community. “He mentioned that the economy is not in a strong state and government would not be right now in the position to support the CPGs as it should. The CPG members were also urged to play a greater role in solving problems affecting communities. “…We have to change our approach, our approach now is to go back and to rethink what is going on wrong here that I can help to remedy.” He noted that lot of persons in the community think that solutions for the communities’ concern lies with the government. “Yes government plays a big role, but a number of the issues I have heard people with passion talk are grievances that can be settled by the community themselves,” he pointed out. The Minister also called on the CPG members to be moral agents, who set an example, for others living in the community. “
He also reminded the CPG members of their civil duty to be impartial in dealing with crime. “A lot of you out there know who are the criminals but you do not want to come forward and give information,” he told the CPG members. He said the new dispensation will not only be going after the bad in the police force, but as well as the bad in the community.
The Minister also handed over sport gear to the CPGs.
Minister of Public Security and Second-Vice President Khemraj Ramjattan hands over sports gear for the Upper Corentyne, Community Group to a lad
A young lady collects on behalf of the members of the Lower Corentyne Community Policing Groups, sports gear from Minister of Public Security and Second-Vice President Khemraj Ramjattan
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