| By Michael JordanAttorney-at-Law Nigel Hughes yesterday queried whether police had attempted to conceal the fact that they used ammunition that was not officially used by the Force on the day that three Lindeners were shot dead.Hughes made the assertion while questioning a Tactical Services Unit (TSU) Constable,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, who claimed in a statement that every member of the squad that was sent to Linden on July 18 was checked twice for extra ammunition.The rank, Constable Osafo Timmerman, testified to members of the Commission of Inquiry that he was sent to Linden on July 18 specifically to take notes of events that transpired during the protest.Timmerman subsequently submitted a signed statement, dated July 19, that Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Patrick Todd had body-searched him and other TSU ranks twice for extra ammunition at Linden before they headed for the Wismar/ Mackenzie Bridge.However,Jerseys NFL Cheap, the searching of ranks was not recorded in the notes that Constable Timmerman made at Linden, and this prompted attorney Hughes to query why he failed to do so then.“There is absolutely no record in your notes recording everything that happens as it happens; you make absolutely no mention of being checked for extra rounds; that any of you were checked for extra rounds. But that happened twice that day.Could it be,Cheap Football Jerseys, Sir, that by the nineteenth (19th of July), you all realised that double zero (ammunition), some strange ammunition was used,Cheap NFL Jerseys Free Shipping, and you were trying to cover your tracks by saying that that you were checked?“Could it be that on the nineteenth, when you made that statement that you had to cover because you were aware that ammunition that was not officially police ammunition was actually discharged by the police?“I am suggesting to you that you made absolutely no record in your minute-by-minute record of what happened on the eighteenth (18th of July), that you were body-checked for extra ammunition.”“Was there a reason that by the time you wrote that statement on the nineteenth that you specifically mentioned that you were checked for extra rounds and ammunition?”The attorney’s line of questioning drew an objection from Attorney-at-Law Peter Hugh, who is representing the interests of the Guyana Police Force.Asked whether if it was the procedure of the Force to submit its ranks to checks for ammunition before they went on an operation, Timmerman first asserted that this was so, but then indicated that he was unsure, since he did not go on such operations often.The TSU rank was shown a large notebook in which he stated that he had recorded,Wholesale Jerseys Cheap, under instructions from ASP Todd, the incidents that occurred while the ranks were confronting the protestors. He stated that he was Todd’s ‘Orderly’, and this was the first time that he was making such written recordings for the police.Under oath, Constable Timmerman stated that ASP Todd instructed him what to write.“Is there anything recorded in this report, which Mr. Todd did not tell you to record, which you saw with your own eyes and you recorded it of your own free will?” he was asked by Commission member Mr. K.D Knight.“Everything that Mr. Todd tell me to write I write,” the constable responded.Knight: “I am asking you if everything in this document was told to you by Mr. Todd.Timmerman: “Yes Sir.”“You did not write down anything that you observed apart from what Mr. Todd told you?” asked Commission jurist Cecil Kennard.“Sir, I didn’t want nothing wrong, because it was my first time (making such recordings),NFL Jerseys Wholesale,” the constable said. |
