| The wife of a detective stationed at Mackenzie is threatening legal action against the Guyana Police for allegedly detaining her husband under inhumane conditions,Cheap Basketball Jerseys, which she claimed caused him to suffer a nervous breakdown.A section of the cell in which the ranks were detained.The detective constable and another colleague allegedly spent three days in a cell at the Tactical Services Unit (TSU), Eve Leary. The cell reportedly had no lights, two-bug-infested beds, was partially flooded due to a leaking roof and had no washroom facilities.“There are no lights (in the cell); there is no washroom. You have to rap when you want to be let out to use the toilet, and then nobody comes to open the door. When the rain falls, you get wet because the roof leaks,” a police rank who was recently detained there said.“It is worse that the Brickdam (Station) lockups. At least at Brickdam there are lights and toilet facilities.”The two detectives are currently on open arrest, but the wife of one of the ranks said that he began to display unusual behaviour upon his release.The woman said she was forced to take him for psychiatric treatment and he is currently undergoing counseling.“I cried at the way that they treated him. He was treated worse than a prisoner,” she toldThe TSU compound where the detention facility is located.Kaieteur News yesterday. “I have been advised to file judicial proceedings against the Guyana Police Force for breach of my husband’s rights.”Kaieteur News was told that on Wednesday, February 25, the two detectives, and a third rank,Jerseys Wholesale, were informed by a female station sergeant that a passenger, who had travelled from Mahdia,China NFL Jerseys, was suspected of stealing $370,000 from another passenger.The ranks reportedly then stopped the vehicle at Wismar, while one of the detectives searched the suspect and other passengers. However, he failed to find the cash.Nevertheless, the ranks allegedly took the suspect to the Wismar Police Station. The detective’s wife said she was told that the station sergeant then told the ranks: “If yuh ain find nothing, let the man go he way,” and her husband’s colleague released the passenger. Another sergeant reportedly saw when the suspect left the station.According to the wife, while her husband was at home, he received a call from a colleague who said that police ranks were searching the other detective’s home,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, since it was suspected that the detective had confiscated the stolen money.She said that her husband insisted that he was present when his colleague had searched the passengers and that nothing was found.The woman said that about an hour later, her husband received instructions to report to a senior rank at the Mackenzie Police Station.The wife said she accompanied her spouse to the station where he was informed that he was being placed under close arrest.She alleged that none of the senior officers told her husband why he was being arrested.However, Kaieteur News was told that the female sergeant who had sent the detectives to investigate the theft later denied that the suspect was brought to the station.She said that at around 07.30 hrs the following day the detectives were taken to the Tactical Services Unit, Eve Leary and told to go to the detention facility there.However, both ranks initially refused and were given a day’s sick leave. During this time,Wholesale Jerseys Online, one of the ranks, who is hypertensive, was taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital where he received a day’s supply of medication.Kaieteur News understands that the rank was to have returned the following day for blood and heart tests, but was instead placed in a cell with his colleague.Kaieteur News was told that the ranks slept on two bug-infested mattresses, and the beds were about a foot high from the concrete floor.Because the cell roof leaked, the cell was sometimes partially flooded when it rained. There were also no washrooms, and the ranks reportedly had to ask their colleagues to use a toilet outside the cell.She said that on February 28, her husband and the other detective were taken out of the cell after she contacted an attorney.She said that the following day,Discount Football Jerseys, her husband was instructed to go to Linden to give evidence in a court matter pertaining to an unlicensed forearm.She said that she only realised that something was amiss with her husband while he was giving evidence in court.The woman alleged that rather than return the exhibit to the police station, her husband brought the firearm home.“He say ‘is me own, they want to take it from me.’ I calmed him down and told him to lodge the weapon.”She recalled that her husband was unable to sleep and was threatening violence against some of his colleagues. The woman said that she took him to a doctor at Linden, who referred him for psychiatric treatment in Georgetown.She was subsequently allowed to take her husband home.Meanwhile, Kaieteur News understands that the other detective remains under open arrest at TSU.The policeman’s wife expressed disappointment in the response by police officials, including ranks from the Welfare Department, to her husband’s plight.She expressed puzzlement as to why the ranks were detained, since she claimed that there appears to be no evidence to suggest that they committed a criminal offence. |
