Karimbaksh Should Be Placed on Leave Pending Independent Investigation over Sexual Assault Claims – Min. Walrond

SOCU Head should be off-duty pending sexual assault probe – Home Affairs Minister

…expired PSC leaves decision in limbo Home Affairs Minister Oneidge Walrond has confirmed that a formal investigation is underway into the sexual assault allegations levied against Head of the Guyana Police Force (GPF)’s Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU), Fazil Karimbaksh. The complaint came from a female officer attached to SOCU – the white-collar arm of the GPF. According to Walrond, a special body has been set to probe the allegations again…

Home Affairs Minister says SOCU head should be sent on administrative leave amid sexual allegations

HOME Affairs Minister, Oneidge Walrond, says she believes Deputy Commissioner of Police Fazil Karimbaksh, head of the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU), should be placed on administrative leave while allegations against him are investigated. The allegations, which began receiving media attention late last month, include claims by a female police inspector that Karimbaksh sexually assaulted […]

Karimbaksh should be placed on leave pending independent investigation over sexual assault claims – Min. Walrond

Home Affairs Minister Oneidge Walrond has finally broken her silence on sexual assault and rape allegations made against the Head of the Special Organized Crime Unit (SOCU), Deputy Commissioner of Police, Fizal Karimbaksh. These claims were made by a serving member of the Guyana Police Force. Speaking on the Starting Point podcast, Minister Walrond said […]

Karimbaksh must be relieved of operational command and placed on immediate leave pending investigation

Personally, I thank the FEMALE Minister of Home Affairs, the Honorable Oneidge Walrond, for her immediate incisive and decisive intervention with her conscious awareness of the administrative, political and societal predicament that the female Police Officer encountered/ will encounter as her allegations are being investigated. The allegations against Deputy Commissioner of Police Fizal Karimbaksh are not merely disturbing, they are a test of wh…