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Waiting for his reputed wife outside a city bank turned out to be a very traumatic experience for popular Disc Jockey, Clive Atwell, aka Selector Clive.Atwell ended up at the Brickdam Police Station after police mistook him for a motorcycle bandit waiting to pounce on unsuspecting bank customers.This is despite the fact that the police had verified his story.A visibly upset Atwell turned up at Kaieteur News with his reputed wife Kisha Bacon and related his ordeal.The DJ told this newspaper that he had dropped Bacon at the Bank of Nova Scotia on Carmichael Street to cash a cheque, which represented her salary, and was sitting outside on his motorcycle.Atwell said that about 20 minutes later he saw a police patrol vehicle coming towards him.According to the man, upon reaching where he was, the ranks came out of their vehicle and immediately ordered him from his motorcycle. He was made to brace the police vehicle with his hands in the air in the full view of curious onlookers.“To say that I felt humiliated is putting it mildly,” Atwell stressed.He said that he was asked his name, what he was doing there and his occupation,Cheap Jerseys From China, to which he answered the policemen truthfully.“I told them that I was waiting on my fiancée who was in the bank. One of the policemen then showed me the palm of his hand with my motorcycle number written in it. They searched me and then I heard one of them on his cell phone talking to somebody in operations. When he came off the phone he told me that is only my wife could save me,” Atwell told this newspaper.Atwell , in the company of one of the policemen, went into the bank and called out his wife.“The first thing he asked me was, ‘whey de cheque deh?’ I showed him the cheque,Cheap Jerseys Wholesale,” Atwell’s reputed wife stated.The rank then made another telephone call and when he was finished,Cheap NFL Jerseys, he ordered the couple to the Brickdam Police Station.From all appearances,Wholesale Authentic NFL Jerseys, the police had received information that a suspicious character was sitting outside the bank on a motorcycle.But instead of being intelligence-led, they confronted Atwell who happened to be the ‘suspicious person’.Atwell acknowledged that the ranks might have been over-reactive given the spate of robberies committed on bank customers by motorcycle bandits.The man and his reputed wife subsequently went to the Brickdam Police Station although the ranks had ascertained that their story was above board. There they met a senior police official who after only a few minutes instructed them to go their way.Atwell was so incensed since his reputed wife had to rejoin the line at the bank to have her cheque cashed.“These police know me,” Atwell said.He believes that the police should have used better judgement instead of inconveniencing and embarrassing him and his reputed wife.“When a man come to commit a robbery, he would not sit outside the bank and have the security cameras on him. There was a female security guard who kept passing me up and down. If I wanted to rob would I sit there and have them recognise my face and my motorcycle? You know how much cameras deh in front of the bank?” he asked.A senior police official when contacted admitted that the ranks had acted a bit unprofessionally.He is of the view that upon receipt of the information about a suspicious character, they should have used some intelligence methods before inconveniencing the young man and his girlfriend.Within recent times there have been allegations of the security forces arbitrarily detaining persons without the slightest evidence of the commission of a crime.“Is all because they know that they could lock you up for 72 hours and then loose you,Cheap Jerseys Free Shipping, they abusing that,” Atwell opined.Atwell whose brother, a policeman,Wholesale China Jerseys, was shot dead outside the Alberttown Police Station during the 2002-2006 crime wave,China NFL Jerseys, said that he would now have a bitter taste in his mouth whenever talk about the police comes up. |
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