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The Special Organised Crime Unit of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) and its Head are now officially required to report directly to the Commissioner of Police.
“The SOCU is responsible to the Commissioner of Police for all investigations, detections, preventions and preparation of criminal investigative reports and case files for prosecutions of financial crimes, including money laundering and the financing of terrorism,” states the SOCU protocol that amends the GPF’s Standing Order No. 62.
The disclosure of the SOCU Protocol comes seven months after a Guyana Defence Force (GDF) intelligence officer, his wife and a lorry driver were killed in a collision on Carifesta Ave while the officer had been assisting SOCU unofficially in staking out and intercepting suspects that turned out to be the wrong targets.
The Unit is now required to have a crime book and a property book.
The protocol , which was approved by Public Security, Khemraj Ramjattan on June 30, 2016, tasks SOCU with “obtaining and using search warrants to aid in investigations,” and “expeditiously identifying, tracing and initiating actions to freeze and seize property that is or may become subjects to confiscation or suspected of being proceeds of crime.”
SOCU has been also given the green-light to use several investigative techniques such as undercover operations, interception of communications, accessing computer system and controlling the delivery/movement of assets.
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