CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC -Police have launched an inside investigation into an incident during which law enforcement officials are seen in a video that has been posted on social media threatening to shoot a motorist throughout a site visitors cease.
“With out prejudice to the interior investigation or every other judicial inquiry which will consequence from the occasions, I want to state that the officers’ actions deviated from police procedures and the overall ideas {of professional} conduct and human rights,” Superintendent Troy E. Lamontagne, the pinnacle of the Division of Highway Security and Visitors Investigations, mentioned in a press release.
He mentioned that beneath Part 23 of the Driving Code, which addresses extreme windshield tint, a violation alone doesn’t warrant car impoundment.
The video, which surfaced earlier this week, exhibits law enforcement officials ordering the motive force of the car, believed to be an lawyer, to show off the ignition for an supposed car impoundment.
The driving force, nevertheless, repeatedly calls for a ticket as an alternative. Tensions escalate with one of many officers threatening to shoot if the motive force makes an attempt to go away, whereas a feminine passenger is heard saying, “Hi there, there’s a passenger in right here.”
Lamontagne mentioned that whereas he’s urging the general public to adjust to lawful police directives, grievances must be addressed via formal channels, such because the Police Complaints Fee or judicial evaluate.
“For the individuals on the market who’ve expressed felony intent or are considering felony acts in opposition to law enforcement officials who report back to work every day to attempt to do their jobs and perform their sworn obligation and generally make errors, be warned: erase that felony intent lest you want to face a lawful drive that you haven’t heard of or seen earlier than,” he warned.
Lamontagne mentioned, “The Royal Saint Lucia Police Pressure values partnership with the neighborhood and stays dedicated to… improved highway security for everybody”.
