Georgetown: Police Service Commission (PSC) Chairman, Paul Slowe is among several retired officers of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) including current officers charged with defrauding the state of more than $10M.
They made their first court appearance Thursday at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.
Those charged Slowe are PSC member and retired Assistant Commissioner, Clinton Conway; Assistant Commissioner Royston Andries-Junor; former Police Finance officers, Woman Senior Superintendent, Marcelene Washington and retired Senior Superintendent, Michael Sutton; staff of the Police Finance Office, Assistant Superintendent, Marlon Kellman and three retired officers identified as Assistant Commissioner, Claude Whittaker, Senior Superintendent, George Fraser and Superintendent Mark Gilbert.
It is alleged that between March 1, 2019 and July 7, 2020 they conspired together to defraud the GPF of $10M.
Reports are that money was paid to revise the entire Police Force’s Standing Orders, but Slowe and the others have so far failed to present the Force with a completed revised Standing Order.
The draft of Police Force’s Standing Orders comprises of 104 Standing Orders but these were already revised at the time that the men implicated in the fraud reportedly undertook to conduct a revision.
“The entire 104 Standing Orders of the Guyana Police Force were completely revised by Civilian Police Analysts that work at the Strategic Planning Unit of the Guyana Police Force between July 2018 and March 2019. However, Slowe and others were paid to do the same revision when it was already done,” a missive from the Force stated.
Slowe and Washington were charged in absentia.
The other men were granted bail in the sum of $100,000 each.
Meanwhile, Sutton was charged separately for falsely signing seven payment vouchers as the accounting officer, which he was not authorised to do, enabling Paul Slowe, Clinin Conway, Claude Whittaker, George Fraser and Mark Gilbert to be paid a total of $1,776,000.
On this charge, he was granted $100,000 bail.
The fraud was unearthed during a probe conducted by the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU).
The matter has been adjourned to June 3.
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