When dealing with the BPS it appears you have more than a one in five chance of encountering a bad apple so, possibly ‘You’ve got to ask yourself one question. Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?’ The now the acting Commissioner of Police,…
Whilst the Bermuda police again struggles with the realty of modern life (and humour) continuing to adopt an oppressive approach to their own, a Court has seen sense; a policewoman who posted an online cartoon before last year’s Black Lives Matter march will not face a…
A Bermuda police sergeant who took legal action after he was passed over for promotion three years ago, has failed to have his appeal upheld. Seemingly he believed that failing to reach the the 60 per cent pass grade in the examination should not prevent his…
With police numbers falling, the once reported 468 on the island needs replenishing. It is not simply because of retirements and resignations, the island has a high rates of ‘loss’ due to: long-term sickness (12) suspension (10) That is about 5% of the workforce incapacitated. Moral…
The island’s top police officer is apparently telling two of his subordinates to pay him or he will sue them. The Royal Gazette has published the account (read more here) . Seemingly, Pc Robert Butterfield is one of the officers sent a letter. The Commissioner of…
Oswin Pereira, now a former officer of the Bermuda Police Service was living a charmed life. Accused of striking a teenage suspect with a baton and turning off his body camera he clung onto his job, until recently. 2019, found not guilty in Magistrates’ Court…
Once asked why the police patrol in pairs, an answers supplied was; you need someone who can read and another able to write. Of a night, you may see them in 3’s; it gets dark. And so we were asked ‘who writes to Commissioner’s messages’…