The alleged victims of sexual harassment at the Bermuda Regiment have been let down by a system “too slow to act”, according to the Opposition.Toni Daniels, Shadow Minister for Youth, Sport and Families, described news that the Human Rights Commission dismissed the allegations after an investigation as “disappointing”.She commented: “This chapter of multiple allegations was closed with no result either way because the system was too slow to act and failed to provide complainants with either proper guidance or support.“The lesson to be learned is that authorities must act in a more timely and responsible manner when complaints are received. And we question the Human Rights Commission’s role in two ways: firstly, its two-and-a-half-year investigation took too long, and secondly, it began in 2009, some seven-plus years after the alleged incidents, yet its executive officer said it had no authority to investigate complaints that are more than two years old from the date of the alleged contravention.”Sen Daniels added: “We welcome the fact that the Regiment has committed to more clearly inform complainants of their right to take their concerns to either the Human Rights Commission or the Bermuda Police Service. However you view it, this entire affair has been unsatisfactory for all concerned.”It was recently announced that the investigation had been closed and the allegations dismissed after no-one came forward with complaints.In a letter to the Commanding Officer of the Regiment dated October 25, the HRC said the investigation highlighted that all of the alleged incidents would have occurred in 2002 or before 2002.“The Commission has no authority to investigate complaints that are more than two years old from the date of the alleged contravention,” wrote executive officer Lisa Lister Reed.She added the Regiment had been “very forthright during the investigation” and the last complaint received was seven years ago.The Royal Gazette has previously reported how Regiment Major Glenn Brangman was accused by 13 male soldiers of sexual misconduct before he was ordered to retire from the Regiment in 2002.Nothing was ever proven against him in relation to the Regiment accusations. However, Brangman, 60, was convicted in February of four charges of sexually assaulting a male teenager who was working as a clerk at the Bermuda Housing Corporation in 2009. Brangman was the BHC’s general manager at the time.The victim, Mr X, cannot be identified by law.On October 29 four days after the HRC dropped the investigation Brangman lost an appeal against the convictions and was remanded into custody, pending a sentencing hearing at a later date.Giving his reaction to the closure of the HRC inquiry, Larry Marshall Sr of campaign group Bermudians Against the Draft, repeated his call for a Royal Commission to investigate the allegations.He pointed out that such a Commission would have greater powers than a normal board of inquiry including no two-year bar on how far the allegations go back, and the ability to summon witnesses to testify under oath and seize documents.“The HRC was not the right organisation to conduct the investigation,” he said.