ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Nationwide Safety Minister Rayburn Blackmoore Friday confirmed that overseas investigators have arrived on the island to probe the disappearance of a number of firearms and ammunition from a police station within the west of the island.
Earlier this month, Blackmoore instructed a information convention that the federal government had approached the Trinidad-based Caribbean Group (CARICOM) Implementation Company for Crime and Safety (CARICOM IMPACS) for help in probing the theft of the weapons and ammunition from the St. Joseph Police Station, west of right here.
Police Commissioner Daniel Carbon had mentioned {that a} complete of 9 firearms have been stolen, together with six assault rifles and a amount of ammunition in a distinct caliber.
Blackmoore mentioned that among the many investigators is a former commissioner of police and that that they had been sworn into workplace and had powers of arrest.
“Allow us to not sidetrack from this crucial investigation,” Blackmoore mentioned, including that the federal government is ready to “let the chips fall the place it could.”
The Nationwide Safety Minister was additionally crucial of a press release issued earlier this week by the Police Welfare Affiliation (PWA) that had been crucial of the Commissioner, saying, “I can’t assist any try and undermine the safety of the state.”
Blackmoore mentioned that anybody who pushed the PWA to problem the assertion, which he described as embarking on a “vicious assault on the Police Commissioner…is doing a disservice to the nation”.
In its assertion, the PWA mentioned it has “repeatedly appealed to the Police Command to deal with the present manpower scarcity on the out-district police stations since such a scarcity would negatively influence the proficiency and productiveness of the Commonwealth of Dominica Police Pressure (CDPF).”
“Sadly, we have now witnessed a big decline in self-discipline and esprit de corps within the CDPF throughout the tenure of our present Chief of Police. For instance, it’s well-known that a number of skilled and competent officers have both resigned or taken early retirement from the pressure on account of what can fairly be described as
the private shortcomings of our present Chief of Police,” it mentioned, urging the “accountable authority” to undertake “the required preparations to urgently deal with the deplorable circumstances in regards to the command of the Police Pressure.”
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