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Control of the police

19th October 2009, as reported in the Royal Gazette:

"Premier Ewart Brown  wants Government to have operational control of the Police service" adding ""Constitutionally, we are hamstrung. We control the purse strings but have little or no say in how the fight is managed."

Really; a Government with little say in policing?  Unlikely.  But what of the statement: "we control the purse strings"?

There appears to be a general lack of control over the purse strings in Bermuda. Two examples are below -

• $485,000,000 of 'missing public funds ...

www.bermuda.org.uk/485_million.htm

• Government has failed to answer questions about the American contractors accused in court of publishing "false and fraudulent information" about the African Diaspora Heritage Trail (ADHT) Foundation. Henderson Associates Inc. got hundreds of thousands of taxpayers' dollars

www.bermuda.org.uk/more_silence.htm

It certainly appears the Government should be working closer with the police, if only to open the Government accounts and assist to trace the missing funds! 

If Government control the purse stings when it comes to tax payers money ... who is responsible for the loss of the monies?  Does anyone have a concern that passing responsibility for the police to Government may be putting a  fox in charge of the chicken coop?