On the evening of October 26, 2026, the Guyana Police Force (GPF) announced the close arrest of a 20-year-old constable assigned to the agency’s central command centre, just hours after Opposition Leader Azruddin Mohamed publicly released a 23-minute surveillance video he claims directly contradicts the law enforcement body’s official narrative of an October 12 shooting incident targeting his vehicle. The junior officer is facing allegations of unauthorised access to restricted police surveillance records, illegal duplication of the footage, and accepting a GY$800,000 financial bribe to hand over the sensitive recording to Mohamed. According to preliminary GPF investigative findings, the footage in question, which captures events from a shooting outside the private residence of a senior police officer in the Sandy Babb Street and Vlissengen Road area, was unlawfully downloaded last Friday, October 23, to an unauthorised external storage device before being transferred to the opposition leader the following day, Saturday October 24. GPF official statements reaffirmed the force’s ongoing commitment to internal accountability frameworks, stating that all allegations of misconduct among sworn personnel will be fully and transparently prosecuted to uphold public trust. Earlier that same Monday, Mohamed screened the full 23-minute leaked surveillance footage at a public press conference, restating his long-held claim that the October 12 incident was a deliberate failed assassination attempt orchestrated against him. He went on to publicly praise members of the GPF’s elite Special Branch intelligence unit for providing him with the recording, noting that rank-and-file intelligence officers are deeply dissatisfied with the lack of transparency around the shooting event. Mohamed also publicly questioned the sitting administration’s refusal to officially release the full unredacted footage of the incident to the public. The latest development comes as Mohamed, alongside two members of his personal staff, is currently out on GY$750,000 bail facing joint criminal charges of illegal firearms and ammunition possession, as well as attempting to pervert the course of justice by discharging a firearm near the Georgetown residence of Prem Narine, the head of the GPF Special Branch, who is a key witness in ongoing extradition proceedings against the opposition leader.