St. Maarten Private Eye

Law and Order - SXM Style

Again and again, basic human rights are abused and disregarded in St. Maarten. Suspects held longer than the law permits before charge, cramped into disgusting and unhealthy cells, sometimes with violent prisoners. Police abuse and incompetance goes uninvestigated and unpubished again and again and all the top management and authorites have to say is that we should support them, have faith, trust.

I don't, I'm sorry. None, zero, nada. zilch!

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Taco and Dick, two clowns incapable of dealing with, confronting or even acknowledging the underlying disgraceful and shameful justice system we have here on St. Maarten. Third World is what it is, Banana Republic Justice and Law Enforcement.

Taco, you promise reports all the time, remember the Gay Bashing? You promised one about the police response to that incident and we never heard back from you.

Remember this man who was deported back to Guyana and claimed he was beaten by St. Maarten Police? No report, afterall, the guy was swiftly and convieniently deported.

How about the guy who got shot dead by the police in Dutch Quarter in June 2005 during a raid for non existant drugs and guns. Whatever happened to that investigation and report?

Or maybe the drunk guy in Simpson Bay who apparently witnessed a crime and got beaten up, twice. Apparently beating people up is ok, this letter explains the situation better and this woman seems to have experienced police and justice indifference quite horribly.

Or the woman at home with her two children who was terrified by someone trying to break into her house but could get no help from the police.

Or what about this story of a man getting a 'brutal beating' by the police in June 2006, could it be possible one of these women was a policeman's wife or girlfriend? Not a thing was heard again about it, I guess he was deported too eh?

We could ask what is the progress with the Angelique Chauvire murder case, are you happy that the person/s who commited this are still unknown among us?

I could go on and on and on. The stories above are old news really, there are dozens more cases that have happened since that have been treated in exactly the same way.

The man in the photo below was made to sit, in his underpants in a a police van for 40 minutes, his crime, being without papers. It's not the first time that suspects, sometimes innocent, have been subjected to humiliating and degrading treatment, it happens repeatedly, again and again.

Our police force top management disgust me, they are not up to the job and task of bringing SXM Justice into 21st century. Dicky claimed recently that his focus has been on improving police management

Can anyone tell me what exactly his focus has accomplished?

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