Clement Rohee
Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee on Monday released a long list of expenditures of the Guyana Police Force aimed at confounding critics who have been saying that government was starving the agency of funds.
The list covers expenditures during the period 2007 to 2013 totalling Gy$2,148,861,552. In the area of training, some Gy$167,550,981 was spent; while motor vehicles and cycles accounted for Gy$758,865,921; building projects Gy$802,837,002; arms and ammunition Gy$326,813,213; and a further Gy$92,794,435 for forensic laboratory equipment.
In the statement, Rohee said the Home Affairs Ministry has noted with disdain the persistent falsehoods being peddled by the opposition political parties, and sections of the media, to the effect that the Guyana Police Force is being starved of resources to successfully and effectively execute its legal mandate to the people of Guyana.
“The ministry wishes to state categorically that since its assumption to office in 1992, the People’s Progressive Party/Civic administration has paid close attention to the all-round needs of the joint services. Never in the history of Guyana, and, particularly, since its independence in 1966, has so many resources been available to the law enforcement agencies, the Guyana Police Force, especially,” Rohee said.
