Crimes Commission for more compassion from Police when dealing with victims.

In what Commission Chairman Stanley Moore later called an "articulate and passionate'' submission, Angela Dill admitted she did not properly know what stage the civil case against taxi driver Eugene Bean was at.

Counsel to the Commission Richard Hector promised Chairman Moore he would establish how far the case had progressed.

Derik was hit while Mr. Dill was driving in parkland at Shelly Bay, Hamilton Parish on August 22, 1999. She spent three weeks in hospital and her progress is monitored by doctors every six months.

Police were finally moved to action a week after the accident when Ms Dill approached the media, publicising the incident.

Commissioner Jean-Jacques Lemay visited Derik in hospital and assigned an Inspector to the case, but the investigation found no criminal wrongdoing by Mr. Bean.

Chairman Moore highlighted the Dill case as symptomatic of a lack of concern for victims -- particularly after Ms Dill said Police were "unconcerned'' and "very abrupt'' with her upon their arrival at the scene.

"One of the things we think is desirable that there is a public agency that would hear about things like this and could see what can be done,'' Judge Moore said.

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