By Abena RockcliffePresident of the Guyana Women Miners Organization (GWMO),
Cheap NFL Jerseys Wholesale, Simona Broomes is firmly of the opinion that there will be no reduction in the level of human trafficking in Guyana unless the crime is taken seriously by the authorities.“When they begin to see it as the crime it really is, they will move to ensure that even the police ranks that are sent to work in the interior are adequately trained to tackle the human trafficking,” said Broomes during a recent interview with Kaieteur News.GWMO President, Simona BroomesBroomes told this publication that she is becoming tired of her organization being the only hope for victims of human trafficking. She pointed to the fact that even the Guyana Police Force (GPF) has seemingly adopted a lax approach to the issue.To backup that statement, Broomes explained that most police ranks operating in remote locations are those that have been involved in something or the other that is not in keeping with the lawful expectations of a cop.The GWMO Head stressed that the Force needs to stop sending police to interior locations as a punishment, since she has seen the effects of sending corrupt ranks to interior locations.The GWMO President made her position clear,
Cheap NFL Jerseys, a day after she returned to Georgetown from the mining community—Imbaimadai.She said that human trafficking exists at high levels at that location. In this regard, Broomes opined that culture is being allowed to supersede law in many interior locations, including Imbaimadai.She noted that it is against the law “to allow little girls in clubs, with grown men at that. People make big profits off of these children and that needs to stop. Imbaimadai is an area that has a police outpost and police presence but these things are still allowed and in some cases encouraged.”Three years ago, Broomes had taken the media to Imbaimadai to witness what was going on in that location.She said that she was surprised to see,
Cheap Soccer Jerseys, three years later, that many of the burning issues that were highlighted then are still happening. She said that extensive human trafficking is one such issue.“I always say that somebody does not walk off the street and say I am a victim (of human trafficking). It is a crime that is hidden and I am asking that the police be on the alert. They should be educated of the laws as it pertains to human trafficking so that they can be able to identify these victims.“Let me tell you what happens when they are ready to select police to send them into these interior locations. They take a police who misbehaved under supervision; move him from under supervision and send them in the interior where there is no supervision,” said Broomes.The GWMO President said that this move by the Police Force sends a shivering message to miners, “they are saying ‘you try deh, you do not mean anything to us’.”Broomes added, “This interior thing suppose to be a punishment but the time has come to train police to operate there.”She said that police officers must now look to send ranks that are actually capable of handling themselves in a professional manner even without supervision.“I went to Imbaimadai to deal with mining issues, to see the problems faced by my ladies but was swarmed down with the complaints and reports of human trafficking. I am not pleased about it.”The GMWO head said that a civilian like herself can see that sending corrupt cops to work in interior locations cannot be good.“The people do not trust the police. If they did, they would have gone to the police and not come to us but they come to us because we are different,
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