The Guyana Police Force has expressed its concern over the incident that occurred early Tuesday morning in the East La Penitence area, which resulted in the death of 42-year-old Hardel Haynes, of Spurwing Drive, South Ruimveldt.The concern comes weeks after three men were charged for a similar offence committed on an ex-convict at Soesdyke.A senior police official warned that persons who participate in the beating of anyone, whether or not the person is suspected of committing a criminal offence, could face stiff justice.“We are urging that although citizens might be frustrated by the spate of criminal activities, it is not their right to take matters into their own hands to such an extent that could cause death,” the official said.He advised that after apprehending a person suspected to have committed a crime, the persons involved should turn the suspect over to the police,NFL Jerseys Outlet, preferably without injuries.A release from the police also stated that an investigation has been launched into the matter by the Office of Professional Responsibility, with specific focus on alleged impropriety and neglect of duty by police ranks in responding to the incident.Haynes’s reputed wife, Cheryl Sydney,Alex Delvecchio Red Wings Jersey, a special constable attached to the Ministry of Home Affairs, had said that when she called the station, at first the telephone rang out.She then called her husband’s cell phone,Cheap NFL Jerseys, and a male who identified himself as a police told her to call the station.By this time Sydney began to get very annoyed at the response she was getting from her colleagues in the force.When she eventually made contact with the station, she spoke to a female corporal and enquired if her husband was there.“Hear she,‘Me ain’t know, they bring a man hey saying he’s a thief man.’ I started to get more annoyed and had to tell them that they ain’t gat certificate with that man,” Sydney told this newspaper.When she asked the corporal if the injured man was being taken to the hospital, she said she was informed that there was no vehicle to do so, and the telephone was rudely hung up.Sydney said she again called the station to enquire if anyone was held in connection with the beating, but was given another rude answer.This newspaper understands that the persons who had taken Haynes to the station had just dumped him and left.When asked why anyone was not detained when they had brought in the badly injured Haynes, a rank at the East La Penitence Police Station explained that the corporal on duty did request assistance from the police Impact Base at Brickdam, but they did not respond in time.The rank claimed that by the time the corporal, who was one of two persons on duty, had attempted to question those who had brought Haynes there, they were all gone.This newspaper also understands that it was a retired senior police officer who used his vehicle to take Haynes to the station.When contacted, the retired officer declined to comment. Meanwhile, the Police Force is clarifying that, according to its records, there is no organized Community Policing Group in the East La Penitence community, contrary to what has been published in the article on the issue in this newspaper.A source had claimed that the persons who had beaten Hardel Haynes was accompanied by a half dressed policeman,Cheap Sports Jerseys, which gave the impression that they were part of a community security group.A source close to the investigations told this newspaper that one man has been detained and is being questioned intensely.The source said that the suspect claimed that he had apprehended Haynes but had subsequently handed him over to other persons,Wholesale Cheap Jerseys, who subsequently beat him. However, he is not saying who those persons are.A post mortem examination,Jerseys Cheap NFL, which was performed today on Haynes’s body by Dr. Nehaul Singh, revealed that he died from multiple injuries. |