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…
Double Murder ‘These things don’t happen randomly’
01/05/2025 the island saw yet another shooting, described as ‘indiscriminate’ gun fire that claimed the lives of two people and left 3 others injured in a bar of 14 patrons.…
Wanted – Staff to Police ‘Paradise’
No Crime Figures for 2023 & 2024 – are the numbers being supressed intentionally? Is it coincidental that the island suffered one of its highest number of murders in 2024,…
Policing Paradise – ‘Reviewed’, not ‘Vetted’ by the BPS – the difference being?
Did the Bermuda Police Service (BPS) have any say, any involvement, in the BBC’s production ‘Policing Paradise’? Last year the BPS and press reported: The BPS senior leadership team will…
Firing Faster than Hiring?
In 2015, the Bermuda Police Service (BPS) had 420 employees – thought to be sufficient to allow the BPS to ‘meet the community’s minimal expectations in terms of our response…
Bermuda Police ‘Factually Incorrect’
The impartiality of ‘Policing Paradise’, a production to be aired by the BBC, was questioned following a Bermuda Police Service’s post which advises: ‘This TV programme is designed to show…
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…
An Empty Phrase That Solves Nothing
Darrin Simons, the Commissioner of a Police service ‘in crisis‘, recently speaking about Bermuda’s appalling crime statistics, is reported (by the Gazette) to have remarked: As I have often said,…
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…