Gunmen rob Kitty post office -$2M snatched (Stab)

Gunmen yesterday morning carted off close to two million dollars in yet another robbery at the Kitty Post Office, located a mere 200 metres away from the Kitty Police Station. No one from the post office was willing to offer a comment on the incident and Stabroek News could not contact the Post Master General.

Police in a statement yesterday said that bandits escaped with $1, 975,900. According to the police, investigations have so far revealed that two employees were at the time in the building: Postal Clerk Nicola Fogenay and Post Master Christopher Bowen. The suspects entered the post office and got into the inner office through an open door where they pointed a gun at Fogenay. They then took her into the Post Master's Office and ordered Bowen to open two safes from which they stole $1,775,900 and $200,000 respectively. They later tied up the workers and fled in a car, which was waiting a short distance away.

Armed robberies at the Kitty Post Office, located on Alexander and Pike streets have been frequent, dating back from November 2005 when three armed bandits robbed the office of some $500,000 and a quantity of stamps. The robbers then had escaped in a waiting motorcar.
The robbery had occurred around 7:30 am. The post office was open for business when the men entered the building. They stuck up several employees and ordered them to lie on the floor and demanded that the Post Master open a safe from which they stole a quantity the cash and stamps. While escaping, they also robbed a female employee of three gold rings and then escaped in a motorcar.

Then in April last year a female employee of the said post office was shot in the thigh when a gunman robbed the office shortly after it opened for the day.
Post Office Corporation Chairman Juan Edghill had said then that the robberies had prompted adjustments in the security system, including changes in the counter arrangement and other internal systems. Edghill had also called on residents who might have information to come forward, since the men were unmasked. A number of other post offices across the city and country have been set upon by bandits and cash stolen. A postal official was shot in one such recent attack in Berbice where a payroll was snatched.

200 HUNDRED YARDS !?!
Actually I usually float around Kitty a lot when i'm there and I know their roughly that distance apart if not less. If that was the UK, US or Canada, there would have been armed police there in less than a minute. Why can't Guyana have the same urgency as we do ???