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Police Commissioner Henry Greene has assured that with the continued provision of vehicles and equipment from the government, the force will be able to keep the lid on crime and traffic lawlessness. New motorcycles that were handed over to the police yesterday. The Top Cop was speaking at the handing over ceremony of vehicles and motorcycles to the Guyana Police Force by Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee yesterday at the Tactical Services Drill Square, Eve Leary.The force is now equipped with 32 more motorcycles at a cost of $30.6M, from the 2007 budget and five double cab vehicles at a cost of $19M from the 2008 budget.According to Home Affairs Minister, Clement Rohee, this year’s budget has allocated $13B for the security sector of which $5B will go to the Guyana police force.He said that the government is cognizant of the need to provide the necessary support for the force and as such, more money has been allocated in this year’s budget for the organization.“Forty five million has been earmarked for the rehabilitation of police stations and 100M for land and water transport, which means more vehicles, and $227M for other types of equipment,” Rohee said, adding that this is consistent with government’s policies of providing more equipment to the police.The Commissioner of Police praised the Ministry of Home Affairs for its persistence to ensure that the police force gets the necessary material support to fight crime and traffic violations.“We know the battle, we know the fight, we know the representation that has to be made to ensure that we can get a fair share of the pie because of the work that we do,Jerseys NFL Wholesale,” the Commissioner said, referring to the allocation provided to the security sector in the two most recent national budgets.He said that the motorcycles will go quite a long way in assisting the force both in the fight against crime and the fight against traffic violations.He revealed that although there are two more road deaths this year than last year, the force intends to draw level or even go lower and the donations of the motorcycles will go a far way in enabling the organization to achieve this objective.Referring to the pick-ups, the Commissioner said that the force has found that they are more ideal for the crime fighting efforts in Guyana.“The cars are good for patrols around town but as you get out of town and get into the villages, because of the increase in houses, the villages have gotten deeper and some of the roads are not always that easily accessible.With the pick-ups we will be able to access many more of those roads,” Greene said.He added that the force expects to receive several more pick-ups based on last year’s budget.“We’re very thankful and we will do our best to continue to maintain the lid on crime and to ensure we have far more deaths on our roads in 2009 than we had in 2008,” the Commissioner assured the Minister of Home Affairs. |