St. Maarten Private Eye

On July 18 The Daily Herald Published the following under the headline "Police officers’ love affair turns sour, gunshots fired":

Daily Herald - Police officers’ love affair turns sour, gunshots fired - 18th July 2008

Audio - Island Times - Police shoot at police - 18th July 2008

sxmislandtime.com also commented on the events here:
The Interesting part here is as Daily Herald put it, " C.’s release has reportedly left several of his police officer colleagues furious. They contend that by law the incident should be considered attempted murder and C. should have been held in custody."

Even more interesting is reporting (maybe speculation ?) by http://www.smn-news.com on July 18th.
Here's the quote:
"Officer Philips was seen coming out of the Philipsburg Police Station yesterday morning, she was visibly shaken and traumatized over what took place earlier in the day"
According to reliably information the male officer once acted upon his own and locked down Club Déjà vu after the same female officer lost her gun while she was allegedly under the influence of alcohol at that club. Detective Cassiana is not an acting prosecutor yet he closed down the establishment and conducted an illegal “house search”. The female officer bag was found in the garbage bin of the club the source said. It is not clear if the gun was ever recovered since the incident was neatly placed under the rug.
The incident at Club Déjà vu happened the same Sunday night when the Census office employee Orlando Gumbs was found dead. However, the police did not release any reports on the incident. "
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What is it? Incredible coincidence that shots are fired and same 2 cops are involved? Is smn-news.com trying to imply that the "house search" of the Club Déjà vu is related to the murder? Was the "lost" weapon ever recovered? Was it the same type of weapon that was used to commit the murder?
It wouldn't surprise me!
I'll even further the "conspiracy theory" here:
The female officer was, according to smn-news.com, shaken when leaving the police station. That took place several hours AFTER the shooting, so why was she still shaken?
Maybe because one of the officers involved, in the heat of anger threatened to blow the cover over the events at Club Déjà vu, and link the missing gun with the murder? Basically, if you shoot someone, you need to "lose" that gun. But what if the gun is a cop's service weapon? Well, you start the "theater" in the Club, to make it look like the gun was accidentally lost. Sort of like OJ Simpon's search for the killer of his wife.
But this is only my speculation.
My question really is this: with SXM police chief, commissioner and some other top cops under indictment or have been already convicted on several counts, with the almost daily stories about cops acting, to put it mildly, "inappropriately", how can anyone who has a stake in what happens in SXM be against the supervision from Holland? And against bringing supervising officers and internal affairs officers from Holland or any other country, as long as they are competent and not corrupt? Can it really be called "re-colonization?" This is a mess, and Everybody's in it. Who in the SXM PD can you really trust?

I think the only solution is:
1) Bring supervising officers and internal affairs investigators FROM HOLLAND until the SXM PD gets "completely cleaned up."
2) Rotate police chiefs and commissioners and internal affairs staff every 6 months. Why? It's hardly enough time to become corrupt. There's no reason to offer a bribe to someone who'll be leaving post in a few weeks time!
There always be "rotten apples" among the honest cops, but a lot more needs to be done to discover who they are, and take away their guns and badges!

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