Corentyne police accused of beating woman, son over alleged theft
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The ranks then reportedly started to search his car, after which one officer allegedly began choking him and cursing at him, demanding that he shut his mouth until he reached the police station.
The man said that when he arrived at the Springlands Police Station, the ranks began to force him to blow on what appeared to be an old breathalyser. “Me tell them a know me rights, a got to get a new one. He demonstrate on the machine and me tell he [I] won’t do it,” the man recalled.
“Them tell me to go lock up me vehicle that me get nuff rights and them cuss me and me cuss them back and them attack me and them slap me and cuff me in me face. One take one gun and lash me behind me head and me fall down and them start kick me,” he claimed.
The man said that he was placed into the cell until morning, when the police took him to the Skeldon Public Hospital. “Doctor inject me for pain and give me one paper to go back 8 o’clock to do x-ray but them na loose me”.
However, the man was released at 4 pm the next day on his own recognizance. “Them tell me go back next day. Me go and them na do nothing. Me go an tell police Foo that me suppose to go take one x-ray, he say he didn’t know that and he tell me to go right away,” Jagnanand said.
Upon arriving at the Skeldon Public Hospital, the man was reportedly told that the x-ray machine was not working, after which time he ventured to the New Amsterdam Public Hospital, where he was told that the x-ray could not be done, since they only had small film at that hospital.
The man then went to a private hospital on the Corentyne, where an x-ray confirmed that he had broken ribs among other injuries. “Me couldn’t afford fa let them doctor read the x-ray, so me take it back to Skeldon Hospital and the same doctor read it and say me ribs break. He treat me and tell me six weeks’ bed rest and then let me go back”, he related.
Meanwhile, the man was only able to obtain a document to have a medical done at the Whim Police Station, where he met with the Officer-in-Charge of Subdivision 2, Persaud, who reportedly claimed that the commander was informed of the matter.
The police, since the incident, have not filed any charges against the man. However, a complaint was made against the officers to the Police Complaints Authority in New Amsterdam, where an investigation is presently underway.
Nevertheless, the Corentyne man is pleading with the higher authorities to launch an investigation into the matter. “Me ain’t know who really to go to and where to report but me want justice. I don’t want to settle no matter. I want the police to be held and charge”, he insisted.