PARAMARIBO, Suriname, CMC -Former justice and police minister, Jennifer van Dijk-Silos, says she isn’t anxious a couple of assertion made by Police Commissioner, Bryan Isaacs, that the police are considering authorized motion over remarks she made final week.
“I want to state that I didn’t recommend something emphatically. All of the issues I raised are widespread data,” Van Dijk-Silo mentioned, including that she doesn’t wish to get into “a yes-or-no dialogue and can due to this fact not touch upon the content material of the briefing.
Jennifer Van Dijk-Silos (File Photograph)
“ I’ll due to this fact calmly await the proposed authorized measures,” she mentioned.
Isaacs informed a information convention during the last weekend that the statements by the previous minister, which prompt that some members of the police drive had been a part of a drug conflict, had been unfounded.
“We won’t permit our integrity to be messed with,” the highest cop mentioned, including that the police are actually contemplating authorized motion in opposition to Van Dijk-Silos.
“It’s extremely inappropriate to criminalize establishments. And to make it appear as if each police officer is untrustworthy. You surprise what the motives are for this.
“We characterise these allegations in opposition to, amongst others, the chief of police and the police administration as unfounded, undermining, and patently false. Subsequently, we emphatically reject the statements made,” Isaacs mentioned.
Isaacs mentioned that the police’s guidelines of engagement are laid down in legislation and that his group is obligated to stick to them.
“If Ms. Jennifer van Dijk-Silos is aware of that anybody has damaged the legislation, I feel it might be clever for her to report it to the Public Prosecution Service,” he informed reporters.
