Ramjattan to rogue officers: do the right thing or get out

Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan is warning rogue elements within The Joint Services to desist from such practices or leave the job as heightened efforts are being undertaken to weed such characters.

“Look, if you don’t want to do the right thing, get outta the job and don’t go and do the nonsense, because that could be explosive,” he said on Thursday.
The Public Security Minister’s comment comes on the heels of the arrest of a prison officer who attempted to smuggle prohibited items into the Mazaruni Prison earlier this week. During a sting operation about 09:00h on Tuesday, prison authorities arrested the 27-year-old officer after he was found in the bachelor quarters of the prison with nine cellular phones with chargers, 403 grams of cannabis, one SIM card and one memory card in a haversack on his bed.
“The sting operation went perfect: we caught him. He couldn’t be using all those cell phones for himself. I understand now that they collect the money from the parents or relatives of those prisoners and that is a violation of all the laws. As a matter of fact, we hope he is going to be locked up, we hope he pleads guilty and he is sent to prison because he was caught red-handed.”

He went on to point out that, “if people start communicate outside and then cause another fire or get some match, because we now understand how the matches get in there, it’s the prison officers, so it’s serious.”
According to Ramjattan, there have since been enhanced efforts to identify and get rid of such rogue elements within the Joint Services.
“I have asked for expanded efforts in catching these rogue elements in all of the units of the Ministry of Public Security: Prisons, policemen, even CANU; I spoke to recently and within the areas of Divisions and so on – set the sting operations up,” the Minister related.