D.C Karimbaksh obstructs police anti-crime operation on female’s behalf
May 03, 2026
By Leroy Smith
The blurred lines of authority within the Guyana Police were on display Sunday when Deputy Commissioner of Police and head of the Special Organized Crime Unit, Fizal Karimbaksh, intervened in a lawful anti-crime police operation on behalf of a female with whom he shares a very close working relationship.
The ranks who were conducting anti-crime operations when they noticed a white Vezel Motorcar with its front windshield and side windows tinted and registration plate obscured.
After the woman was stopped, she handed the phone to the police, and on the other end of the line was Deputy Commissioner of Police Karimbaksh, who also identified himself by name and rank.
The senior policeman ordered the ranks to cease their operation and let the young woman go. The woman who identified herself as a police officer and who Karimbaksh said works at SOCU, has the name saved in her phone as “Fazil” an indication that indeed the two might have a very strong and close working relationship, as junior ranks would often save their superiors by name and rank.
Frightening, however, is that a senior officer, without allowing himself to be properly briefed by ranks on the ground during an operation, would intervene and order ranks to let someone go and for them to abort their lawful operation.
Acts like these are what could allow cocaine and criminals to move from point A to B in this country without fear of being intercepted and searched by lawmen.
All drivers, by law, are required to submit to the police immediately upon request their driver’s license. The female today told the police that she did not have hers on her.
Policy cannot triumph over law; the law states clearly that any gazetted police officer has a right to stop, search, and detain any person, vehicle, vessel, etc…. THAT IS THE LAW!
NOWHERE IN THE LAW DOES IT SAY THAT ONLY TRAFFIC RANKS CAN PERFORM TRAFFIC STOPS. THAT IS A FORCE POLICY, NOT LAW ….. SO TECHNICALLY, THE POLICEMEN COMMITTED NO BREACH
WE WILL BE FOLLOWING THIS MATTER VERY CLOSELY AND WOULD URGE THE POLICE FORCE AGAINST ANY CONSIDERATION TO TRANSFER THE RANKS BECAUSE THEY WERE CONDUCTING THEIR LAWFUL DUTY AND WERE IN THEIR RIGHT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE POWERS GIVEN TO THEM IN THE POLICE ACT.
