ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – The Dominica authorities says it has sought the help of the Trinidad-based Caribbean Group (CARICOM) Implementation Company for Crime and Safety (CARICOM IMPACS) within the investigation of the theft of a number of weapons and ammunition from a police station, west of right here.
Nationwide Safety Minister Rayburn Blackmoore mentioned at the very least 9 firearms had been stolen from the St. Joseph Police Station.
“You’ll have heard of the current incident on the St. Joseph Police Station, and I wish to say whereas I used to be in whole help of the police once I acquired a report from the Commissioner of Police, I don’t wish to inform you what I responded,” Blackmoore instructed reporters.
“There isn’t any cheap excuse or rationalization for what transpired on the St. Joseph Police Station, and it’s a scenario whereby we should always take away our political cap and have a look at these points as extreme nationwide points.”
Blackmoore mentioned that the federal government is taking the matter “very severely” and that the Police Commissioner had appointed the pinnacle of the Felony Investigation Division to analyze the matter.
“However I consider that the matter is so pressing and extreme that we have now requested impartial investigators via the instrumentality of CARICOM IMPACS to be in Dominica very shortly to analyze that matter independently and let the chips fall the place they’re purported to fall.
“The police are charged with defend and serve, and the general public should be assured that that’s being completed…and I’m distraught at this incidence,” Blackmore added.
Police Commissioner Daniel Carbon mentioned the scenario is one in every of grave concern.
“I can affirm {that a} whole of 9 firearms had been stolen from the St. Joseph Police Station, six of that are assault rifles. We’ve got three M-16 rifles, three 7.5 rifles, one shotgun and two pistols, and a amount of ammunition in a unique caliber,” Carbon mentioned.
He instructed reporters, “Always, there should be law enforcement officials current at a police station. What has occurred in St. Joseph is outrageous; that’s all I’ll say about that.
“I can inform you that the St. Joseph Police Station because it exists now’s in three separate areas, and that’s so as a result of lodging needed to be supplied for officers even when the police station is below building.
“I sincerely consider, and I do know there are sufficient law enforcement officials within the three totally different areas to make sure that the principle …quarters the place the armory was that there must be a police officer on obligation on the police station 24/7…in addition to on the different two constructing”.
The Police Commissioner insisted that “there should be a police officer current at a police station.”
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