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Crime figures for 2019 and 2018 were released last night – after three-and-a-half years without reports. The 2019 report released by Bermuda Police Service showed criminal offences at their second lowest level since comparable figures were given in 2...

The island’s top police officer quit his post last week with almost two years to run on his contract. The Royal Gazette takes a look at the tumultuous three year tenure of Stephen Corbishley, now the former Commissioner of Police. Stephen Corbis...

A gay rights charity has voiced its support for a police officer who accused two colleagues of a serious sexual assault. OutBermuda said in a press release that it backed the officer’s legal challenge of a decision by the Director of the Department o...

Police confirmed yesterday officers have launched an investigation into a report of a sex assault at a children’s home. A police spokesman said: “The Bermuda Police Service is aware of an incident that took place at a governmental residential care fa...

Police are investigating three cases under a new anti-corruption law. The inquiries fall under the Bribery Act 2016, which came into effect last year. The probes were disclosed after a public access to information request to the Bermuda Police Servic...

A 27-year-old man appeared at Supreme Court today charged with the 2011 murder of Colford Ferguson. Khyri Smith-Williams, of Broome Street, Sandys, denied committing premeditated murder with another person not before the court on February 4, 2011. He...

A gas station cashier who was injured by a fleeing robber is “shaken up but OK”, according to her boss. Joseph Marable, co-owner of Esso Tigermarket on Crawl Hill, said the female employee went to the emergency room at King Edward VII Memorial Hospit...

Bermuda’s murder rate has halved over the past five years but it is too early to say the Island has turned a corner on violent crime among young black men, according to commentators. There were four murders on the Island in 2015, compared with a peak...

Bermuda is taking a holistic approach to tackling the “devastating phenomenon” of gun and gang violence, according to Police Commissioner Michael DeSilva. He told a conference of police chiefs yesterday that harnessing the whole community to tackle t...

Bermuda can change the behaviour of its gang members by warning them about consequences, morally engaging with them and helping them to change, according to a US gun crime expert. Professor David Kennedy, director of the Center for Crime Prevention a...