tortured and starved, a British Police officer today begins a new life in the Bermuda Police Service.

P.c. John Yore suffered the ordeal in Belgrade with three other foreigners after being arrested on bogus spying charges, but today he begins his dream of working in Bermuda.

P.c. Yore arrived at Bermuda International Airport last night to start a three year secondment with the Island's Police Service and will begin training today.

Just under two months ago, he was released from a Belgrade jail after being held captive for 67 days by henchmen of the tyrannical former President of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milosovic.

The 31-year-old officer was ushered out of the airport in a Police van last night and refused to comment after touching down on the 6 p.m. British Airways flight from London.

P.c. Yore, a traffic officer from Cambridge, made headlines around the world in July when he and Det. Sgt Adrian Pragnell of Hampshire Police were arrested with two Canadians as they returned to worn-torn Kosovo from holiday.

The pair was training Police officers in Kosovo under the auspices of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe, but the Yugoslav Army accused them of spying.

The Yugoslav authorities held them because their papers were not in order and refused to believe one Canadian was carrying explosives because of his job.

The officers said they were punched, intimidated, deprived of sleep, and forced to stand for hours facing a blank wall. They were later paraded on Yugoslav television as spies.

Describing the torture at the time, P.c. Yore said: "It's cleverly done, slaps to the stomach, kidneys, that sort of thing.'' According to British newspaper reports, P.c. Yore has a girlfriend in England, but he arrived on the Island alone last night.

He will begin a two- to three-week intensive course in the Police Training School at Prospect today, to cover the work some of other newly recruited overseas officers completed in five weeks.

Police spokeswoman Evelyn James-Barnett said he will be given a tutor constable during his first patrols on the streets, which are expected to begin towards the end of the month.