Charged Police ranks to make another appearance

Driver’s licence scam

Slapped back in July with a total of 50 charges alleging they had forged examination papers for persons writing the theoretical drivers’ examination, a sergeant and two corporals of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) on Monday reappeared before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan on a quest to be placed on bail, and were ordered to return to court for a report on their matters on September, 25, 2018.
Police Sergeant Alfred Park, 50, of Diamond Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara (EBD), and Police Corporals Shanice Fraser, 31, and Ryan Grey, 25, had denied the charges read to them by the same magistrate on their first appearance in court to answer the charges.
The court had been told that on April 12, 2018, while Park was sergeant in charge at the Felix Austin Police College in Georgetown, he, with intent to defraud the public, allegedly conspired with others to forge 13 questionnaires for persons who did not write the drivers’ examinations.
And Fraser and Grey, with intent to defraud the public, on August 12, 2017, while in Georgetown, allegedly colluded to forge 38 examination papers altogether for persons who allegedly each paid to acquire a driver’s licence.
An investigation had been launched by the Guyana Police Force in April, and it unveiled that there was a total of 207 pass papers for persons writing the examination for a driver’s licence while only about 61 persons had attended and written the examinations.
Park has been placed on $1.3 million bail, while Fraser and Grey have respectively been placed on $150,000 and $160,000 bail.