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Officers of the Guyana Police Force, who were engaged in the shootout with the now dead, Deryck Kanhai, Tuesday afternoon, did try to negotiate a surrender.Kaieteur News was told that after they managed to enter the Middle Street, Cummingsburg house in which Kanhai had secured himself, officers offered him a chance to surrender but he refused and continued to trade bullets with the lawmen before he was taken out.“We did negotiate with him. We called on him to put down his guns and come out. We assured him that we would not kill him although he had shot and killed two of our men,” a source who was a part of the operation told this newspaper.A three-hour standoff that almost paralysed an entire ward in the city ended when Kanhai was shot dead by police in the bottom flat of his Middle Street house.Tear smoke billows from the building in which the gunman was holed up. The Balwant Singh Hospital is in the background.This was after he had killed four persons, including two policemen, a female dispatcher of a taxi service and another civilian in what many are describing as cocaine-filled rage.Kanhai, 53, had also shot and wounded a taxi driver with whom he initially had a confrontation.It was after shooting the civilians, Vanessa Vyphuis,Carlton Fisk Red Sox Jersey, 38, and 73-year old Hugh Paul, that Kanhai turned his guns on the lawmen, Lance Corporal Michael Forde and Constable Sherwayne Pantlitz.The two policemen had responded with their other colleagues to the reports of shooting.From all indications, Kanhai was suicidal and was prepared to take out as many persons as he could before he was eliminated.“Any fool with a gun would kill a set of people before the police arrive,” the source said.Need for SWAT teamTuesday’s incident is a clear indication that there is an absolute need for a Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT) unit, said the Home Affairs Ministry.“This incident reinforces the contention of this Ministry that there is a dire need for well trained Specialized Units in the Guyana Police Force to respond to similar types of incidents.“We are now more than committed to ensure that the SWAT team is established in the Force within the time frame stipulated. The Ministry of Home Affairs commends the efforts that were made by the brave ranks who responded to the incident,” the Ministry said in its statement yesterday.“The Ministry of Home Affairs wishes to extend its condolences to the relatives of the policemen who lost their lives in the line of duty and the two civilians who were brutally murdered,” the statement added.There were a few raised eyebrows when Government announced that it was setting up a SWAT team.Some suggested that Guyana would not have the type of activity that would necessitate such a unit.However a senior officer of the Guyana Police Force disagreed with that suggestion,Blake Swihart Red Sox Jersey, pointing to possible copycats.“Nuff people will try to be heroes. There are plenty guns in the hands of many more like Kanhai,” he said.In an invited comment on Monday last,Joe Maddon Cubs Jersey, Commissioner of Police Leroy Brumell told Kaieteur News that the force is in the process of identifying ranks for the SWAT unit.“We have all the equipment, everything that we’re supposed to have…long before now. We started preparing a long time now….whenever they are ready,Ron Santo Cubs Jersey, we gonna be ready,” Brumell said.“A lot of eyes on us for this thing…They say we gonna recycle ranks, but we don’t have to recycle. We’re gonna get some fresh men,” he added.While several questions will arise about the police operations during Tuesday’s incident, there are quite a few suggestions that the ranks involved performed creditably, although there is much room for improvement, if the force is to minimize casualties in any subsequent similar confrontation.Many are comparing Tuesday’s operation to the one almost 14 years ago which saw the demise of the notorious Linden ‘Blackie’ London, at a guesthouse on the East Bank of Demerara.On that occasion, London, who had also secreted himself in a building,Christian Vazquez Red Sox Jersey, held off the security forces for nine hours before he was finally killed.Back in February 2000, the security forces eventually had to negotiate surrender after efforts to eliminate “Blackie” failed, even after they had battered the building with rocket propelled grenades and set it on fire. London was nevertheless shot dead as he emerged from the building with his hands in the air.In Tuesday’s case, the police had to contend with a drug crazed man in a heavily built-up area, with a hospital nearby.“With ‘Blackie’ it was night and he had more weapons, including grenades and I believe he was better trained than Kanhai,” an officer from the Tactical Services Unit who asked to remain anonymous explained to this newspaper.The other difference,Mookie Betts Red Sox Jersey, he said, was that the units that had engaged London were trained units; Target Special Squad and the Guyana Defence Force’s Special Forces.“Kanhai had an advantage over the ranks. First he was in a house that had tinted windows; he could see out and they could not see in,” the TSU rank noted.Negotiating surrenderRecounting Tuesday’s events, a rank who was actively involved, said that the police had to use intermittent bursts of gunfire to try and force Kanhai to respond so that they could ascertain his location in the heavily grilled house, which is also secured by some steel doors.Kanhai obliged and after the ranks contained him to one part of the building, the ranks then tried to get to where he was.“We had to break a wall on the northern side and then we used heavy weapons fire to pin him down to one area so that we could get into the bottom flat apartment. When we got in, he retreated to a room at the back of the building,” the ranks explained.It was then the negotiation started.According to the rank when they began talking to Kanhai, they were first hoping that he would readily agree to surrender. But if that failed, they wanted him to respond to them so that they will know his exact location in the building.“After we spoke to him he didn’t say anything, instead he just kicked in the door and then is when we know where he was for sure. He started shooting and we shoot back. We never really had a clear shot but with our heavy weapons, we were able to penetrate the door which had a hole,” the rank detailed.Eventually when there was no more firing from Kanhai the ranks knew that he was hit and they tactically moved into the room, pumping a few more bullets into Kanhai’s fallen body to make sure that he was no longer a threat.Next to his hand was the shotgun that he was using as part of his arsenal.The ranks said that they were also slightly surprised by the tattoo of a gun that was on Kanhai’s stomach.But despite the success, there were some glaring operational lapses. One was the use of tear gas in that particular location, which has a hospital in close proximity.Then there was the matter of ranks turning up at the scene without protective gear and appropriate weapons.“I hope the tacticians who are preparing the SWAT unit have taken careful note of this incident,” a senior police officer told this newspaper.