A police investigation into allegations that senior officers are linked to local drugs dealers has left manyHome Affairs Minister Clement Rohee.holes, according to Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee.In an invited comment on the matter, the Minister told this newspaper that Assistant Commissioner Steve Merai who had made damning allegations against members of the Force,Cheap NFL Jerseys Store, still has a lot of questions to answer.The Home Affairs Minister did not elaborate but assured that the matter will be dealt with more in depth in the near future.The Minister had received the report from Crime Chief Seelall Persaud two weeks ago.Persaud was mandated to conduct an investigation into the allegations that Merai had made a few months ago during a Force administrative meeting in the Commissioner’s Conference Room.Merai, who has since officially retired from the police force, but who has been retained until after the holding of General Elections, had fingered two senior police officers as having close links to drug dealers.He had also alleged that some members of the force’s Tactical Services Unit of running drug blocks.Those fingered have all denied the allegations. Faced with mounting public pressure, the Crime Chief was mandated to investigate.Following the revelations, the Home Affairs Minister had indicated that he had serious discussions with Police Commissioner Henry Greene on the matter.Rohee had said that he is very concerned about the allegations.“I think that in any part of the world where allegations of a similar nature are raised,Wholesale China Jerseys, the political person that is responsible would be concerned. It is not something that we take lightly,” Rohee emphasized.“What we see now is that they are actually in print… allegations made by a member of the Force itself against colleagues in the Force, and I think that this adds a greater degree of seriousness to the matter,Wholesale Jerseys Free Shipping,” Rohee stressed.Initially, Assistant Commissioner Merai was reluctant to cooperate with any local investigation into the matter but later reneged to facilitate the work of the Criminal Investigations Department.Since the allegations were made,Cheap Jerseys, there had been calls for the interdiction of the officers who were fingered.However, except for one of them who has since resigned the others all remain on the job.Assistant Commissioner Steve MeraiThere were also calls for the resignation of the Commissioner of Police who had his American visa revoked in 2006 for allegedly benefitting from the drug trade.And Presidential candidate of the Alliance for Change, Khemraj Ramjattan, had disclosed that the United States State Department has a wealth of information on local cops who are linked to the drug trade.He said that Merai’s revelation was certainly nothing new to the police since US officials have informed him that they have provided information to the local law enforcement authorities with regard to officers of the Guyana Police Force who have benefitted from the trade in illegal drugs.“We have been speaking to the State Department officials who have indicated to us, on my last trip to the State Department,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, that they have been giving the information to the Government of Guyana. The Government of Guyana, however,Wholesale Jerseys, has been telling the people that it has not been getting the information.“And it is for that reason that the State Department has indicated that the Minister’s visa has been taken away and the Commissioner’s visa has been taken away,” Ramjattan stated.A recent US State Department report had pointed to massive corruption within the Guyana Police Force and overall government.