The Guyana Police Force says it cannot find records for firearm licences sold between August and December last year and is appealing to persons who received their licences during that period to report to the Office of Professional Responsibility.

This was revealed in a press statement from the force on Friday which came three days after the GPF announced that a female lance corporal had been placed under arrest in connection with a firearm licence fraud uncovered at the Brickdam Police Registry.

“Financial irregularities have been uncovered at the Registry involving the sale of firearm licences which are being investigated by the Police Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) and the Criminal Investigation Department (CID).

The record of firearm licences sold for this period has not been located and consequently individuals and representatives of companies who have purchased their firearm licences at Brickdam during the period, are asked to report to the Police Office of Professional Responsibility at Police Headquarters, Eve Leary, with their licences, in order to aid the investigations,” the statement read.

The OPR is open from Monday to Friday, between 9 AM and 4 PM.

Police Chief of Criminal Investigations, Deputy Police Commissioner Seelall Persaud could not quantify the amount of money involved because the investigation has just begun.

He explained that the investigation has so far revealed that the Lance Corporal, who is stationed in the ‘A Division’ Registry Section, allegedly stashed two books of licenses which also serve as receipts.

Investigators are working on the theory that licences had been issued from those books but the money was never remitted into the police coffers and the records were hidden.

The alleged fraud was uncovered by auditors who were following the paper-trail.