Just days after the sacking of a senior Officer for ‘poor conduct’(read more here) the island’s Assistant Commissioner (3rd highest rank) Martin Weekes, received ‘management advice’ as a result of WhatsApp exchanges with a former officer.
These exchanges, coming to light during a hearing, were apparently described as:
- embarrassing
- not in keeping with the high standards to be expected of the Bermuda Police Service.
- not the kind of loose banter one would expect to be going on between senior officers of a disciplined force like the BPS.
It is reported the court felt ‘compelled to record our concerns that this sort of conduct is not in keeping with the high standards to be expected of the BPS’.
It appears the outcome relates to an allegation of ‘discreditable conduct’, more about the matter can be read here. Martin, having been placed on restricted duties last year is to be reinstated after charges of gross misconduct found no case to answer – read more here.
In 2015, superintendent Martin Weekes was promoted to the rank of Assistant Commissioner to take up the portfolio of Crime and ‘Intelligence’.