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Domination and Power in Guyana

FOR MY FAMILY

Ann, Dionne, and Tamara

My Sister Phyllis

and

My Mother Who Fathered Me

First published 1982 by Transaction Publishers

Published 2017 by Routledge
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Copyright 1982 by Taylor & Francis.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

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Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe.

Library of Congress Catalog Number: 80-19179

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Danns, George K

Domination and power in Guyana.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. PoliceGuyana. I. Title.
HV8189.3. A2D36 363.20988 1 80-19179
ISBN 0-87855-418-1

ISBN 13: 978-0-87855-418-8 (hbk)

Contents

2. THE POLICE IN GUYANA:
A COMPREHENSIVE OVERVIEW

Divide and Rule:
The Epitome of Civilian Control of the Military

6. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS:
DOMINATION AND POWER IN GUYANA

List of Tables and Figures

TABLES

FIGURES

Abbreviations

BGVF	British Guiana Volunteer Force
BITU	Bustamente Industrial Trade Union
CID	Criminal Investigation Department
CRCJ	Center for Research of Criminal Justice
ETB	External Trade Bureau
GAWU	Guyana Agricultural Workers Union
GDF	Guyana Defence Force
GLU	Guyana Labor Union
GMMWU	Grenada Manual and Mental Workers Union
GNS	Guyana National Service
GPM	Guyana Peoples Militia
ICJ	International Commission of Jurists
NCOs	Noncommissioned officers
PNC	Peoples National Congress
PPP	Peoples Progressive Party
PRO	Public Relations Officer
PSC	Police Service Commission
PSU	Public Service Union
PYO	Progressive Youth Organization
SPEC	Social, Political, and Economic Council
SSU	Special Service Unit
TSU	Tactical Service Unit
TUC	Trade Union Council
TWU	Transport Workers Union
UF	United Force
WPA	Working Peoples Alliance

I am indebted to Distinguished Professor Lewis Coser, whose image and example inspired this effort. I am grateful for the advice and encouragement he gave and for writing the foreword.

I am grateful to my wife Ann and my daughters Dionne and Tamara who suffered my partial withdrawal from family life. Ann lovingly typed an earlier draft of this work and toiled with me in formulating my ideas, collecting data, and documenting material.

Professors Paget Henry, Kurt Lang, and Eugene Weinstein of the State University of New York at Stony Brook read an earlier draft and I greatly benefited by their criticism and guidance.

I owe my good friend and colleague, Professor Aldon Morris of the Department of Sociology, Michigan University, and his wife Kim much gratitude and inspiration.

Special thanks are due to Jean Ramsaran, Don Singh, Lenise Fredericks, A1 Creighton, Elaine Small, Terence Hunte, Cora Schwartz, Loraine Wayne, and Carmen Griffith, who in ways too numerous to mention assisted this enterprise.

Finally, I am indeed grateful to the Ford Foundation for granting funding for my research, The Center for Inter-American Relations for providing in their seminars a helpfully critical forum for testing my ideas, and Distinguished Professor Irving Louis Horowitz of Rutgers University without whom this study might not have been published.

GEORGE K. DANNS

Georgetown, Guyana

George K. Danns, the author of this pioneering study of the structure and powers of the police in Guyana, has outstanding qualifications for the descriptive and analytical tasks he has undertaken here. A native of Guyana, where he received his secondary and college education, he later went to the United States to work for a Ph.D. in sociology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Having obtained his degree, he returned to his country, where he is now a senior lecturer in sociology at the University of Guyana in Georgetown.

Given this background, George K. Danns takes advantage of the perspective of both the insider and the outsider. He knows the society he writes about from intimate personal knowledge and involvement while he also assumes the posture of the outside observer who avails himself of the advantage of distance. Equipped with a double vision compounded of nearness and distance he can describe and analyze the working of the police system in Guyana and of the society as a whole in ways that recall Tocquevilles as well as, say, Daniel Boorsteins vision of the American scene.

As will be readily apparent to the reader of this remarkable study, George K. Danns is deeply in love with his country and strongly identifies with its well-being and development. Yet he is at the same time critical of and alienated from the present authoritarian regime that controls its destiny. This compound of feelings and attitudes toward his native land has led him to what Robert K. Merton and Renee Fox have called an analytical stance of detached concern. Like many a surgeon, aware that overidentification with the patient he is about to operate on would lead to inefficient performance, but also aware that concern for the well-being of the patient is essential for effective execution of his task, Danns combines loving concern with critical detachment. It is this detached concern, I believe, that makes for the remarkable success of this work.

Many studies of Third World countries undertaken by native scholars too often suffer from twin defects. They either tend to explain away any defects in their country by laying all the blame on outside forces such as multinational corporations, imperialism, or the prejudicial working of the world market; or they engage in apologetics for the regimes that happened to be in power. George Danns has successfully avoided both these shortcomings. He shows in instructive detail how many of the present problems of Guyanas society are indeed the results of the imperialist and colonialist domination of the past, but he is also at pains to document that the present authoritarian regime bears a heavy responsibility for Guyanas predicaments.

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