Anarchy possible if nothing done to curb police killings - Clarke warns Stabroek News February 19, 2000 General Secretary of the PNC, Oscar Clarke, has warned of the possibility of anarchy if the government does not address the problem of extra-judicial killings by the police. Clarke, speaking after a Mashramani press conference at Congress Place yesterday, said: "There is an element in the police force that seems to have some kind of mission, whether that is political is another matter, to go after and kill..." Clarke conjectured that perhaps the police, mindful that they were neither competent nor had inadequate resources to have criminals convicted, were simply making their jobs easier. However, he warned: "People are not going to accept this all the time" and that "the consequences for Guyana would not be good." As part of a "responsible opposition party" he called on the government to do something about this as the PNC "would not be able to hold back the crowd." As the police are an arm of the state, it is therefore the government's responsibility to address the issue, Clarke said. He cited the case of Shawn 'Big Bird' Nedd, who was shot over a stolen water pump by the police on February 7, and commented that it was a "most gruesome killing" done in full glare of the public and that the dead man had been under arrest and could not run away.