Commission Secretary, Gino Persaud, told the Chronicle the body may return to the county of Berbice to take testimony and make site visits to the Army Air Corps, Coast Guard, Fire Service headquarters and some prisons.

He said the Commission has three months to conclude its final report.

A preliminary report on its investigation of the Guyana Police Force was presented to the National Assembly earlier this month.

The Commission was appointed in June to investigate and recommend reform of the country's disciplined forces and mandated to give priority to the Police inquiry.

In its interim report, the body said there needs to be "urgent, serious and wide-ranging reform of the Guyana Police Force, and the provision of substantial material and financial assistance to enable it to deal more decisively with threats to law and order.

"The Commission recommends that such reforms should be embodied in a strategic plan and should not be implemented in a piecemeal fashion," the report said.

It made recommendations on functions and operations, structure, recruitment and training, extra-judicial killings, ethnic balancing, community policing, accountability to civilian authorities, complaints against the Police, firearm licences and the Coroner's Act.

Among what the Commission said were its "most important" recommendations were the strengthening of the investigative capabilities of the Police; establishment and maintenance of a sound national criminal intelligence system; augmenting of numerical strength and setting up of more sub-divisions, stations and presence in new housing areas and high crime risk locations.

Appeal Court Judge, Ian Chang, chaired the Commission, which comprised Senior Counsel, Charles Ramson, Brigadier (ret'd) David Granger, Attorney-at-Law, Anil Nandlall and Maggie Beirne of the Commission for the Administration of Justice in Northern Ireland.