More Unreliable Forensic Evidence
Anwar Muhammad, who had been accused and convicted by a jury of shooting and injuring Shantoine Prinston Burrows in August 2010, has had his name cleared. He spent 10 years…
Opinion: Gaps in Bermuda’s Police Disciplinary System Raise Accountability Concerns
Bermuda’s legal framework apparently (currently) lacks provisions to continue disciplinary proceedings against police officers who resign or retire, effectively halting internal investigations once an officer leaves the ‘service’. While the…
Damned if you do, damned if you do not?
What would you do if, working in a culture of fear and distrust, your boss asked for information it appears you you should not divulge? Should your boss ever place…
Crime Statistics … for 2022: assaults up almost 20%
Where are the crime figures for 2023 and 2024? Can they really be that difficult to produce? As for 2022, whilst offences recorded by police fell more than 8 per…
Policing in Bermuda – like a crime comedy drama?
2024 has seen what may be a record number of murders in Bermuda and, adding to the many unsolved killings, in November 2024, a conviction has been quashed due to…
‘Problem at the Heart of the Criminal Justice System in Bermuda’
05/2009 – A new DNA database was in the pipeline for Bermuda with the Police hoping it would crack cold cases and boost detection rates in new crimes. A three-year…
Bermuda Firearm Licences
An email, initially dated, 07 September 2024 to the BPS, currently without a response, copied 02/10/2024. It follows the BPS disclosure of the 2018 list of the island’s 42 licence…
Operation Tastefully Named?
Whilst murderers reman at large, the police have arrested 3 men in connection with shots fired at them 24/08/2024. Read more here. Possibly surprisingly, it is reported that the police…
Shooting at Police Officers
Astoundingly, the islands criminals, more generally associated with shooting one another, are prepared to fire upon uniformed officers! Taking their shots from a moving motorcycle the two men made their…
One Less Murder on the Island
Bermuda’s murder number to date has been reduced by one as, more than a month after the incident, the constabulary reveals a 07/07/2024 death was suicide. The Bermuda Police Service…