Georgetown, Guyana – November 2, 2026: Following a confirmed alleged security breach of Guyana’s national police surveillance network, Home Affairs Minister Oneidge Walrond has announced sweeping procedural and legislative reforms to lock down access to sensitive command centre data, official statements confirm. The incident centres on allegations that serving police constable Ryan Greene illicitly sold footage pulled from the country’s public safety closed-circuit camera network to Opposition Leader Azruddin Mohamed, who later deployed the footage last month to publicly challenge official police accounts of a shooting involving Senior Superintendent Prem Narine, a key witness in ongoing United States extradition proceedings targeting Mohamed and his father Nazar Mohamed.
In a formal public address issued Monday, Walrond – a seasoned legal professional and former magistrate – outlined a multi-phase response beginning with a full, top-to-bottom audit of the National Surveillance Command Centre, covering all assigned personnel, tiered access permissions, supervisory oversight frameworks, and day-to-day operational protocols. The review will map the full scope of the data breach, identify any gaps in conduct or oversight that allowed the unauthorised footage to be extracted, and trigger immediate disciplinary or administrative action where wrongdoing is verified.
Findings from the independent audit will be used to roll out enhanced multi-layered security controls, more rigorous hierarchical supervision, zero-tolerance enforcement of existing operating rules, and the adoption of global industry best practices to shield sensitive law enforcement data. The results will also directly inform targeted legislative updates to close loopholes in existing data protection rules for law enforcement assets.
Both Mohamed and Constable Greene now face potential prosecution under Section 9 (2)(b) of Guyana’s Cybercrime Act, a statute that criminalises unauthorised sharing of protected electronic data tied to national security, regardless of whether the individual accessing the data had formal system authorisation. A conviction on the charge carries a maximum penalty of a GYD $8 million fine and five years of custodial sentence.
Walrond explicitly emphasised that no individual, including elected political officials, is exempt from investigation under national law, noting that holding political office does not grant legal immunity, just as partisan political affiliation can never serve as a legitimate basis for arbitrary prosecution. She added that if the alleged misconduct by the police constable is substantiated, it represents a severe abuse of public trust, with the potential to derail ongoing sensitive criminal investigations, erode the integrity of law enforcement operational security, and disrupt the fair administration of justice. The breach, she noted, has exposed critical gaps in long-standing standard operating procedures for the command centre that require urgent remediation to protect the public’s safety and the integrity of Guyana’s law enforcement infrastructure.