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if you are considering service in the Bermuda police farce, do read the documents accessed by the links (right) which are in MS Word format and may be saved to your hard drive.
December 2004 - want to get an idea of the conditions under which you will be interviewed ... click here to view the inside of a hotel room in London, compete with George Jackson (deputy Commissioner of Police) and a person understood to be Ms Joan Rogers (personnel).
February 2004 - a report on the Bermuda Free Speech Forum:
3 policemen, recently imported to work here, were so shocked by the
crammed, unhealthy, third world working and living conditions for
Police ,they resigned and left.  The intensive care unit at KEMH is kept busy with victims of crime, from Mrs. Ray, the elderly grandmother, to the latest stabbing on front st. The public never hears what really goes on ,the descent into third world criminal chaos is always a threat, to visitors, and locals alike.

But most of it we never hear about, until it has been sanitized and
retold by police media relations.  Then the magistrates let the criminals off, with probation, making a joke out of it. That's because the jail is 99% full.
 
February 2003: Police officers living in barracks at police HQ have received eviction notices; one month to find somewhere else to stay!  Got to make room for the new recruits! How would you feel as a new recruit knowing that the constabulary has made a room available for you by kicking out someone who you may soon be working with?   click here to read the press article.
February 2003, a recruitment drive is on ... www.bermudapolice.com received the following which should act as a stark warning to potential recruits:  

To learn of the author's experiences, click here

6th February 2003

I read with great interest the information on your web site. I am a serving police officer in the UK and have served for around six years. I have read police review on many occasions and seen the Bermuda advert with regard to attachments. To satisfy my curiosity I went on holiday to Bermuda in 2002 with a friend from another force. The intention to see what the police attachment would involve.

I found the Island a paradise. Beautiful beaches, Scuba diving and wonderful views. That was the upside, the downside was being a police officer in Bermuda.

I spoke to many UK officers and went out with them drinking and socializing. I found them to be generally very unhappy with the service and for the following reasons.

1. There appears to be little or no leadership. Management don’t care.

2. Sickness is at terrible levels. To the extent that non-UK officers don’t even phone in sick, they just don’t show up for work.

3. Morale was below floor level.

4. UK Officers feel abandoned, the management don’t care. They can only tow the line, feeling very undervalued.

5. UK Officers don’t seem to be offered any courses, there seems to be a trend that officers are just to fit in someone’s shoes, not to offer or train them for new skills.

6. One Uk officer told me that when he placed an assistance call, the UK officers went towards him, but officers on attachment from other areas of the world were seen driving in the other direction. There appears to be a problem within the service itself. Officers from different parts of the world don’t seem to gel.

7. Many UK officers were training to do other occupations. The UK officers left the United Kingdom, as they were not too happy with UK policing only to find themselves jumping out of the frying pan into the fire. With no intention of returning to the UK and none of staying in Bermuda, they have to train for other occupations.

I can fully understand your anger at the police service. I wanted to be a police officer since I was eleven years old. After six years of serving as a police officer I have found the police service to be everything I thought it was not. Please publish my letter on your web site if you can find the space.

Thank you,

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  • major investigations

  • the island's narcotics

  • Discipline

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"to subvert & betray"

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Bermudapolicerecord is not a official Bermuda Police web site but independently maintained.  However, the diary entries are an accurate representation of former Detective Constable 217's daily diary of activities on the island's of Bermuda from 1988 to 1991.  The officer probably had the highest arrest and conviction record on the island.  However, he was eventually the subject of unsubstantiated petty allegations in respect of which the island's police service, in breach of its own disciplinary regulations, did not hold a disciplinary hearing.  Instead, the then Commissioner of Police Clive Donald, declined to renew the officer's contract.  For further information, please follow the links: Complaint / Subverted & Betrayed / Back-Stabbing