Georgetown: Public Security Minister, Khemraj Ramjattan is standing on the side of the police as it relates to March 15, 2018, shooting on the seawall which left three suspected bandits dead.
Speaking to reporters Wednesday morning Ramjattan said, “I don’t want us to start demoralizing the police as there is an extraordinary negative that can happen and I am going to support my policemen until such time as they are proven to have done something wrong.”
He reminded that all suspects have the presumption of innocence until proven otherwise and questioned, why not the police?
The Minister stated that “any responsible government will attach some credibility and reliability on the police investigators,” adding that, “that is the routine thing unless there is something so badly done that you are going to question the police immediately.”
He did, however; admit that he is not too clear on all the circumstances surrounding the incident.
Police had said that an unnamed businessman had exited Scotibank, Robb Street and eventually he ended up at the Georgetown Seawall Road where the men were about to rob him when police intervened and the suspects were killed in an exchange of gunfire.
After the Minister of Public Security said the matter would eventually be dispatched to the Director of Public Prosecutions and most likely a Coroner’s Inquest would be ordered, he was asked on what basis he was taking the police force’ version. He cited “their credibility and reliability and the fact that there were some questions to be asked of” eyewitness, Devon Lyte. Lyte’s supervisor has since he (Lyte) was not on the roof of the Georgetown Softball Cricket Ground building from where he claimed he had seen the incident.
Ramjattan has since expressed the hope that the investigation will help to determine the circumstances under which the suspects were shot and killed.
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