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The Editor Speaks: Can the claims of a disgraced cop be taken seriously from his widow?

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  1. The complainant against her husband was a friend of another police officer who disliked him following a badge number mix up when both men joined the police service.
  2. The allegations made against him were false because some people wanted rid of him because he had issued traffic tickets to people who were friendly with the Commissioner.
  3. Morale was low in the RCIPS ever since Operation Tempura.
  4. There was entrenched discrimination between the Caribbean officers, including Caymanians, and the UK officers.
  5. The Caribbean officers and Caymanians were put under much more pressure and stress and whenever a Caribbean officer made a mistake, the management fully prosecuted those officers but the UK officers’ mistakes were covered up.
  6. His arrest had been executed by officers involved in Operation Tempura.
  7. He said he was badly mistreated by the Tempura officers after his arrest.
  8. He had requested being allowed to go through the back door of the George Town police station but was made to go through the front door.
  9. He was placed in the cell that had been condemned by the Commissioner and not fit for humans before his interview.
  10. It had been a hard job for her husband to obtain bail but after it had been granted when he returned to the police station to answer it he was told he now had to go to Northward the next week.
  11. He had requested lawyer Peter Polack to represent him but was told he wouldn’t be able to afford him.
  12. He was very scared at the threat he was going to Northward prison.
  13. Natalie Williams had not been allowed to view her husband’s body.

Published September 14, 2014

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