The Bermuda Police Service has just signed a contract for the purchase of a new Police vessel, designed to head up the Marine Police fleet and replace our current ‘Blue Heron’.
This is not a recent initiative, but has been the subject of many hours of research and discussion to establish a vessel to fulfill certain roles within the Police maritime area of responsibility.
Unfortunately, after many disasters there are efforts to try and steal money that was given to assist with the recovery. The Fraud Unit is aware of reports from overseas that indicate a number of bogus websites are being set up, with the aim of soliciting donations to assist with the disaster caused by Hurricane Katrina in the U.S.A. These websites are fraudulent.
Around 1:50pm today, Police attended a reported road traffic collision resulting in injury on Middle Road in Devonshire in the area of Chaingate Hill. It appears that a 12 year old Warwick boy was riding a bicycle on the premises of a day care when he lost control and collided with a car traveling west on Middle Road.
September 5, 2005 will mark the second anniversary of Hurricane Fabian and the tragic loss of Police officers Stephen Symons and Nicole O'Connor, Station Duty Officer Gladys Saunders and Corporation of Hamilton worker Manuel Pacheco.
The Bermuda Police Service can now confirm the death of 48 year old Louis Robert Barry of Maryland, U.S.A. was as a result of natural causes. Mr. Barry was found in an unresponsive state around 12:35pm on Thursday in a room at a Southampton guest property. The Bermuda Police Service extends its sincere condolences to the family of the deceased.
Around 11:05 this morning, Police attended a reported road traffic collision resulting in injury on Church Street near the junction with Wesley Street in the City of Hamilton, involving a car and a pedestrian. It appears that the car, a black Toyota Corolla, was turning west on to Church Street when it collided with a pedestrian on the pedestrian crossing. As a result the car sustained front end damage.
Around 12:40am on Sunday, a Police Support Unit (PSU) on mobile patrol attended Fentons Drive in Pembroke. The officers arrested an 18 year old Pembroke woman for an outstanding warrant and searched the basket of the motorcycle she was sitting on. The basket contained a sizeable quantity of what is believed to be controlled drugs, which were seized.