Allow the police to do their work

TIMES INT'L

Dear Editor,
What is this about people and their complaining about the police even as they are doing their work? They are accusing them of indiscriminate shooting, as though these law enforcers are a set of mad men on the loose.
Such wrangling resulted from the arrest of four young men in Sophia.
Relatives and residents are now trying to claim otherwise, saying that the police behaved in a dangerous manner, shooting indiscriminately. This kind of thing is quite recurrent when it comes to the police and their sweeping down on loiterers and people just ganging up at certain locations.
Many young men are resorting to ganging up for I know not what. It is not like Guyana is short where employment is concerned. Then this gun business is another factor – they always seem to have some kind of dangerous weapons on them. Where they get these and what are their intentions are matters to be considered.
The police made good as regards arresting a few people over the weekend – they had guns and ammunition.
So I think that law-abiding people should be glad with this kind of proactive police work. It is very disturbing that youths are caught with guns and residents are complaining.
I am very fed-up too with people coming out and blaming the police after a loved one is caught in some kind of shady act. If these implicated youths had been gainfully employed, then they would not have had the time to lime and pose that ever-threatening presence to people.
I personally get scared when I see any group of such young men. The police are right – get them off the streets. We need our streets to be safe.
Yours truly,
Clairmonte Emmanuel

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