| Attorneys for embattled Police Commissioner Henry Greene are expected to file their reply to submissions made by Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Shalimar Ali-Hack, justifying her advice to institute a rape charge against the top cop.Kaieteur News understands that the DPP delivered her submissions to Chief Justice Ian Chang last Friday.Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Shalimar Ali-HackThe Chief Justice had given the DPP 10 days to explain how she arrived at her decision to recommend the rape charge.Chief Justice (ag) Ian Chang had ordered the DPP’s attorney to lodge with the court all the statements in the case, including those by the Commissioner and those by the woman who claims she was raped by the Commissioner.However, when the court met on February 27, last, the DPP failed to explain how she arrived at her decision. Instead,Cheap Jerseys Wholesale, she gave the court a reportedly bland statement that did not go down well with the Chief Justice.The Commissioner is seeking to have the High Court quash the DPP’s recommendation that Mr. Greene be charged with rape.In presenting the documents as an annex to her affidavit, the DPP did not explain her decision. Justice Chang warned state attorney Naresh Harnanan that he was not interested in the lawyer’s analysis,China Jerseys, but rather, he wanted “The analysis of the DPP.”Harnanan begged of the court ten days to submit the DPP’s analysis in writing.Once the explanation is submitted, Greene’s lawyers say they are prepared to get going immediately, namely, responding to the DPP’s statement, after which Justice Chang will have to make a ruling.It is not yet clear when that ruling will be made.The Transparency Institute of Guyana called for the government to fire the Police Commissioner if he refuses to resign.“By indulging in sexual relations with a person of such obvious vulnerability, Mr. Greene abused his position and his authority.“This clearly amounts to corrupt behaviour by internationally accepted standards, under which corruption is defined as “the abuse of entrusted power for private gain,” the Institute said in a statement.The woman in the scandal has claimed she was raped, but the Commissioner has insisted that the sex was consensual.Following an investigation by local and Jamaican detectives,Cheap Jerseys, the DPP recommended that Mr. Greene be charged with rape. However,Wholesale Jerseys China, the Commissioner, in what has been described as a possible precedence setting case,Stitched Jerseys, moved to the High Court to have the DPP’s decision quashed.Greene, who joined the Guyana Police Force in February 1974, took over as its head on July 24,Cheap NFL Jerseys, 2006 when then Commissioner of Police Mr. Winston Felix, proceeded on pre-retirement leave. He is the ninth national of Guyana to command the Force since its establishment on July 1, 1839. |
