The diary pages, accessed by the links (left) are in text form for November 88 to March 89.  April appears as individual pages and from may onward, the pages appear under 'daily diary'.

This diary is a word for word copy of the official police diary maintained by DC 217 Swift, formerly of the Bermuda Police Narcotics department.  The diary runs from November 1988 to August 1990 when, following a tip-off that a major investigation involved at least one senior police officer and a barrister, the officer was 'subverted and betrayed'; the words of another serving senior officer.

The May to August 1990 enquiry is referred to on this site and www.bermudapolice.com as 'Miranda'.

Transferred to the narcotics department:

Having applied for the narcotics department in early 1988, I received a favourable reply.  Eventually, I was permitted to join the department because I had come to notice; as a n uniform officer I was arresting almost as many people for drug offences as the entire narcotics department.  But my acceptance was not without conditions:

• I must no longer represent fellow officers in police disciplinary offence matters (everyone I had defended to that date had been found 'not guilty'
• I must assist the narcotics department, for the first time in its history, to reach 1000 arrests for the year; Dennis Ramsey, the detective chief inspector wished to be the first OIC Narco' to achieve this figure.

November 8th was my first day in the office. 

There is no training, no familiarisation with the office or its procedures, simply a casual introduction to those present and a greeting from the Detective Chief Inspector in charge, Dennis Ramsey.

I am a 'detective' in name, left to find an unoccupied desk and clear from the draws those items left by a previous occupant.

The account you will read in these pages is taken directly from my CID (Criminal Investigation department) Dairy.  The first few days saw minimal content, but as I found my feet and became accustomed to the procedures in the office, so the entries become more detailed.

Diaries were generally poorly kept by narcotics officers - very little was contained within them.  This diary was an exception to the rule ...

The diary was commenced my first day in the narcotics office - November 8th 1988