The Bermuda police service has apparently been contacted by the island’s Information Commissioner about a data breach. The constabulary has been recommended to notify the individuals whose personal information may have been breached and to mitigate the breach, consistent with good privacy practices. At this stage, Bermuda does not have data protection or general privacy…
“In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.” ― Dwight D. Eisenhower (a similar quote is attributed to Winston Churchill) Change Programme – BermudaPolice.com AMBITIONZ Making Bermuda Suffer Bermuda’s 2016 – 2018 policing plan (BPS Strategic Plan) and it’s 5-point approach is succeeded by a 2018-2020 plan, the 2018…
Commissioner of Bermuda Police is seemingly looking to recruit officers prepared to act illegally … 15/01/2019, Steve Corbishley tweets ‘DCI Luther can have a job with @BermudaPolice anytime’.: It is unknown whether the Commissioner believed he was watching a documentary, but his choice of staff is questionable. DCI Luther (by Idris Elba*) is known to…
Following hot on the heels of 42 names, addresses and dates of birth of the island’s firearms owners ‘inadvertently’* being disclosed, the BPS (Bermuda Police Service) is seeking a senior officer with ‘professional standards’ (complaints) experience. It is likely successful candidate will be from Britain where there are plenty of officers who have been promoted…
In December 2018, the Bermuda Police ‘released’ details of 42 licenced firearms holders who have submitted applications to have their annual licences renewed. In what appears to be a serious blunder, the personal details of 42 applicants, rather than being retained within Bermuda, not transmitted outside of the constabulary, have been emailed beyond the service,…
… but the police ‘hide’ in offices … the island’s new police chief hails from a country where, in many parts, ‘the balance of fear is shifting. Criminals are not afraid of the police and the courts. Normal people are afraid of wrongdoers’. The police in England, where Steve Corbishley previously was employed, are likened…
More evidence that the county’s relationship with alcohol (and other drugs) is seen as a potential remedy for ‘rock fever’; the stir-crazy sensation of living on a total land area of 50 Km2 (19 sq. miles). Nine people were arrested Friday night (05/10/2018) due to the Road Sobriety Checkpoints. This despite a public notification that the…
The Bermuda Police, unable to find a suitably qualified Commissioner from within its own ranks, has turned to the UK and appointed an acting Area Commander from a constabulary whose effectiveness at recording reported crime was graded ‘inadequate’ by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services – extract below – full report…
05/0218 – The UK’s Evening Standard reports upon profits from opioid painkillers manufactured in Cambridge having its ‘nerve center’ in Bermuda at Mundipharma House. Par La Ville Place, Hamilton – said to be the nerve centre of the Sacklers’ tax avoidance strategy for the past 25 years. To read more, click here.
Whilst the Bermuda Road Safety Council attend the launch of car dealer’s Auto Solutions’ pledge wall, which customers are invited to sign to promise that they will drive responsibly, the police demonstrate their own approach to highlighting the problems of driving on Bermuda’s road by steering off one, into a hedge. It appears Bermuda’s road…