Tag: RCIPS
UK coastguard to conduct search review
(CNS): Coastguard Commander Andy Jenkins from the UK Maritime & Coastguard Agency (MCA) has agreed to conduct an independent review of the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service’s response to a search and rescue report and the subsequent operation in March after five people were reported missing. The governor’s office released the news Thursday morning and said […]
CIG presses on with ombudsman merger
(CNS): Government has confirmed it will be pressing ahead with the merger of the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and the Office of the Complaints Commissioner (OCC) to form a new ombudsman’s office that will also deal with police complaints. The controversial decision will save the government just $83,000 a year from the existing budget for […]
UK should hand police over to Cayman government
(CNS): The premier believes the United Kingdom would be better off and the Cayman Islands would be further ahead if the Foreign and Commonwealth Office relinquished control of national security and the management of the police service to the Cayman government via a police authority. Speaking on Radio Cayman, Alden McLaughlin said the current arrangement […]
Speaker sets special meeting for next month
(CNS): Hopes by opposition members that the speaker of the House would call a much earlier meeting of the Legislative Assembly to debate two motions relating to the management of the police service have been dashed. The speaker has confirmed the parliament will not sit until Wednesday, 13 April, just twelve days before the already […]
Cops & 911 find no trace of alleged early calls
(CNS): Claims made Friday by relatives of the two boys and three men now presumed lost at sea that they called 911 long before midnight on the night their loved ones did not return home have been refuted by the police and the emergency call centre. Screenshots given to other media appear to show 911 […]
Search moves to recovery operation
(CNS): After searching almost 2,000 square miles of ocean with no sign of survivors, officials confirmed Friday evening that the RCIPS coordinated search and rescue operation had been declared a recovery. The search for 9-year-old Kanyi and 11-year-old Kamron Brown, their uncle Gary Mullings, Edsell Haylock and Nicholas Watler began on Monday morning, 7 March, after the […]
Governor to investigate search operation
(CNS): As criticisms of the police over the search and rescue operation for two children and three men missing at sea continued, the Cayman Islands governor announced Thursday that she was carrying out an independent review at the request of the police commissioner. Her announcement came just hours after the opposition leader filed a private member’s motion calling on government […]
CoP belittles politician’s complaint
(CNS): The police commissioner appeared confident Friday that the bumper list of complaints filed against him by opposition MLA Bernie Bush were groundless. David Baines dismissed the more than 20 complaints as nothing more than gossip. Even though the list refers to a number of actual incidents that have caused concern throughout the community, he accused […]
RCIPS keeps lid on new probe by Bermuda cops
(CNS): An investigation by Bermuda police into allegations about local officers supplying drugs is being kept under wraps by the RCIPS, CNS has learned. A small group of police officers from the UK territory were in the Cayman Islands recently investigating allegations about the conduct of officers here, reliable sources have told CNS. However, the […]
Bridger has new evidence about Tempura saga
(CNS): The former senior investigating officer of the discredited Operation Tempura has told CNS that he has “new and incriminating” evidence about that investigation. Martin Bridger also said he was never interviewed by the RCIPS regarding complaints he made about senior officials, which the governor has told him are not in the public interest to investigate. She has, however, allowed an […]
Cops bring HR class action against RCIPS
(CNS): The Royal Cayman Islands Police Association and 13 named officers have filed a human rights petition in the Grand Courts against the police commissioner and the attorney general claiming the enforced retirement of some police officers at the age 55 and others at the age of 60 is discriminatory. The association also claims that officers […]
