SOCU throws Sergeant in lockups after failed ‘Mohamed Sting Operation’

January 16, 2026

The Special Organised Crime is under fire from within its own organisation and other serving members of the force for its treatment of apolcie sergeant.

SOCU, earlier this week, arrested a police Sergeant by the name of Canterbury and ordered that he be thrown into the police lockups, fully dressed in his police attire, a clear breach of the Guyana Police Force Standing Orders on procedures which are to be followed when arresting and detaining serving members of the organisation.

BIG Smith News Watch has been informed that the police sergeant who usually drives the Guyana Police Force Tow Truck in Georgetown was called away from his duties and lured by a senior officer of SOCU to a location on the East Bank Demerara.

It turned out that the SOCU agents were staking out Peter’s Hall Masjid, where the Mohameds would usually pray. The operation was to seize a Toyota Land Cruiser, which was parked outside the Masjid at the time.

However, while on site, another senior officer of SOCU communicated with the policeman and told him, “Boy, leave those people vehicle alone.”

After waiting for some time, the main officer on the ground, who was also commanding agents of the Guyana Revenue Authority, ordered the team to move from the location and return to the Ruimveldt Police Station for a debriefing.

At the station, the police sergeant was told that he was being detained. When he questioned the reason for the decision, he was not answered. His rights were not read to him, he was denied a phone call to his wife to pick up his children from school, and he was also denied access to an Attorney-at-Law.

In fact, a senior police officer on the ground attached to SOCU told the policeman that if he wanted to call his wife, he should do so using the phone of another police officer.

The sergeant was then placed in a vehicle and taken to the North Ruimveldt Police Outpost, where up to last evening, he remained.

One source inside of SOCU told BIG Smith News Watch that “the big man hay” wants to charge the policeman for conspiracy to commit money laundering.