Police To ‘Disperse Groups’ In White Hill Area
The police will once again exercise powers under the Criminal Code Amendment Act 2010 to disperse groups in the White Hill of Sandys, Acting Chief Inspector Robert Cardwell said today [Sept 6].
Mr Cardwell said: “Officers will engage the men congregated and instruct them to immediately disperse and to not return for the duration of this authority. Anyone who refuses to immediately comply with an instruction to move on, or who returns having had an instruction to desist from doing so can expect that they will be arrested and placed before the next sitting of the Magistrates’ Court.”
The signed order is here [PDF] and the map of the area in question is here [PDF].
Acting Chief Inspector Robert Cardwell’s full statement is below:
Good morning, I am today announcing that the Bermuda Police Service will once again exercise powers under the Criminal Code Amendment Act 2010, Section 110 and specifically the power to disperse groups. The initial duration of this authority shall be between 8am on Saturday, 8th September until 11:59pm on Friday, 21st September, 2012.
Under the powers under this section of law officers have been authorized to exercise these powers in the general area known as White Hill in Sandys Parish to curb the anti-social behavior that is exhibited in this community. More specifically this will be in the areas of:
Middle Road between Spring Benny Road and Farmstead Lane; Spring Benny Lane, Spring Benny Drive, Spring Benny Road, White Hill View, Rockywold Drive, Rockywold Road, Butterfield Lane, Woodlawn Road, Fairhaven Lane, White Hill Lane, Farmstead Lane and any public place contiguous to any of these roads.
A map clearly indicating the areas this community can expect the police to be exercising these powers will be published in both newspapers together with the notice tomorrow.
It is necessary for the Bermuda Police Service to exercise these powers as a direct result of the consultation that has occurred with community leaders and others who live within this community. They have essentially pleaded for assistance to rid this community of the anti-social behavior exhibited by groups who congregate and cause alarm and distress and I have received letters from members of this community to this effect. The anti-social behavior exhibited is evident in reports of drug dealing, public alcohol consumption, loud music playing and the general disrespect shown towards the area residents all of which contribute to the alarm and distress of these residents.
It is our intention to assist this community and return the community back to its residents as was successfully done on the previous occasion we exercised these powers on Cambridge Road in Sandys.
The areas mentioned and indicated on the map can expect heightened levels of police attention. Officers will engage the men congregated and instruct them to immediately disperse and to not return for the duration of this authority. Anyone who refuses to immediately comply with an instruction to move on, or who returns having had an instruction to desist from doing so can expect that they will be arrested and placed before the next sitting of the Magistrates’ Court. The penalty for anyone convicted of an offence under Section 110 can expect a fine up to $2,500 and/or 3 months in prison.
Additionally anyone under the age of 17 found in any of these areas under this authority between the hours of 9pm and 6am can expect that they will be taken to their residence and handed over to their parent or guardian. If it appears to a police officer attempting to return a child under the age of 17 to their residence that there is any risk to that child or the child is in any danger, the child will be handed over to the care of Social Services.
We will assess the response to this authority over the course of the next 2 weeks and if deemed necessary I will make a case for a Police Superintendent to exercise his power under the act to extend the authority for an additional 30 days.
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You F#@king IDIOTS will not rest until Bermy is Officially a POLICE STATE…you wanna be thug rats dont have 1mm of brain matter between your ears…you are making it very easy for the Elitists to carry out thier plan of total control over the citizens of this little island …So don’t look this way for any Sympathy or Mercy….Makes me sick….
SMH………
What an assinine comment. Your part of the problem.
i see you are asleep also ….smfh! all you see is face value …shows the limited brain function from which you and many more suffer…
i don’t know about you terry but I was born a FREE man…research that!
Hey knucklehead, I was born a free man too – and my wife and kids were born free as well – - NONE of us should be afraid to go outside in our own freaking neighborhood to go for a walk, but we are!!! So while you want your freedom, SO DO WE!! We want the freedom from these pests and vagrants that congregate in our neighborhood!
are you really free knucklehead…can u and your wife n kids sit by the side of YOUR road and wave like Mr. JB..? NO!…WHY..? coz of ur wanna be thugs causing unnecessary police vigilance…and don’t let me see you doing it coz i will call and complain that you haven’t been told to move immediately…because its the law now….thanks to people like you…these restriction that you all cry for doesn’t make you anymore safe…IT RESTRICTS YOU AS WELL!!!!!..the police know who to target…but are they..?
i jus have to shake my head at the number of really mis-informed people that have no shame at showing how asleep they are..
ay bye what u thinks gonna happen if your auntie gets BEATEN DOWN by one of those groups just cuz she was wearin her wedding band on a Tuesday nite! you think you’ll care about bermuda becomin a “police state” then?
sometimes i just have to shake my head at the number of really mis-informed people who think that OTHER people are misinformed/asleep when its really them
Asleep at the wheel……….eatin a meal’…….with my ace boy Neil……..
excuse me @ keepin it real.
Stop thinking like a 5 year old. Whatever Bda needs to do to rid us of this violent crime then so be it, whether you call that a police state, army, military, swat team, it doesn’t matter the problem needs to be dealt with HAVE YOU NOT BEEN READING THE NEWS ABOUT THE VIOLENCE YOU DAMN MOROON.
If anything these guys are getting off easy people are demanding these guys be rounded up and put in jails asap and never let out.
aka clean sweep.. WAKE UP!
WHAT U OVER THERE HMPHING FOR YOU DUMB F#@K!….did u hear me say ohhhh my poor little boys are good boys ….to hell with thug punks do what you may with them …JUST DON’T INFRINGE ON MY FREEDOM TO SIT AT THE SIDE OF THE ROAD AND WATCH TRAFFIC AND SPEAK TO MY FELLOW BERMUDIANS…if i so do wish to ok.
sorry aint got much tolerance for arrogance or ignorance …
sure wouldn’t want you at the helm …but you should live in russia where all of your suggestions are already in place …russia land of freedeom and safety…hahahahahaha
If you have nothing to hide then you have nothing to worry about, if some of us that are innocent have to give up some of our old ways to save the country then so be it.
It’s a new day stop thinking backwards to fix this problem we have to move forwards.
I can see exactly where keepin it real is coming from and if its this escalating gang problem you want stopped, it starts in town, from the national stadium to spanish point boat club. All my life I have known about MOB, ESC, 42nd, frontline, and all the rest, now with the rise of parkside, do you hear about frontline? No its all parkside now and like I’ve said before they’re ruthless. I’m from town and I have no problems going east or west but these days I won’t even drive 30secs over the hill to happy valley belvins, I’ll drive into the city first, trust me the valley aint so happy anymore. You want a group dispursed? Try removing the unbagged trash that sits around drinking and demanding money outside of a struggling BLACK owned business! Happy valley belvins! If I won’t go there anymore because of that how many others feel the same? I’ve heard other people in the store talking about the parkside bies outside, so if they know then the police should f@ckin know. Who’s the first to bring out an automatic machine gun? Who’s responsible for most of the armed home invasions, armed robberies, murders and extortion? Do you want someone coming to your house telling you that you owe parkside a certain amount a month or something bad will happen? No? Then the police need to sort out their f@ckin priorities. Do you not find it ironic that one of the biggaz on the police gun squad lives right above a parkside bigga? There’s a little more to that story but I like my life and don’t trust the anonymity of these comments especially seeing how well connected these guys are. This is where the public should demand the police concentrate, dispursing white hill will only cause more deaths on their front. Looks to me like the police want to take out the MOB spotters. Also in no way do I support MOB or any other gang, but they are the least of our worries, they don’t carry on like parkside darkside…sounds like a bunch of super villains from a really gay cartoon.
So why here and not the back of town?
Are they working their way towards town or completely avoiding it all together? It would make sense if your in with parkside and want to disperse the MOB watchdogs so nobody males that call up to woodys. Why dont you try dispersing the group up Fentons Drive? Oh right, that’s a no-go zone for the police.
OMG…I was thinking the same thing!! WHITE HILL???….Who do they trouble??? when is the last time there was a write up saying “3 members of the WHITEHILL GANG were arrested”…NEVER!! Like clearly there is pure F-ERY going on…Stop whitehill, mob…but not put patrol on Parkside till the Darkside…I smell a rat…a BIG DIRTY RAT!!! BERMUDA POLICE, YOU KNOW WHO THE REAL TROUBLE MAKERS ARE..GET IT TOGETHER, YALL EITHER SCARED, OR —!!!! SMDH…
Yes, White Hill… I am not surprised! When you live on those roads and you have to put up with the “cussin, noise, drinking, fighting and these fools in the street and won’t move out the road. YES, make them move and go sit off on their own property and stop trespassing. If its not a fight, its an all out cussin match and the minute you comment, it gets ugly. Sorry for those that have to suffer for the idiots.!
IDIOTS !!! just walk two blocks from police station heading north and you will see at least 12 guys (parkside) sitting around on court street.
clean up your own back yard first, cowards !!!!
AMEN!!! I guess the BDA POLICE are really taking the saying, DONT SH*T WERE YOU EAT, literally…
what about the town clowns. I drive across white hill everyday they are not making any trouble. Attack the trouble makers.
What if I am sitting on the public bench in that area not casuing a rucus of any sort, wil lI be asked to move??? What about my rights to congregate in thw public in a peaceful manner??
That make no sense at all.
How can they do this? This is police thuggery how can you tell citizens they cannot congregate in a public area the police don’t own that land its everybody’s, this is a direct infringement on freedom a should be met with disobedience.
“It is our intention to assist this community and return the community back to its residents as was successfully done on the previous occasion we exercised these powers on Cambridge Road in Sandys.” In this case those that congregate there are the AREA RESIDENTS this makes no sense
Cambridge Road was not a success, these guys just moved to the bus stop in front of arnolds and have taken to the Willow Cuts field
It was a success because they took the “people” off the road going to Cambridge Beaches. Can’t mess with the tourism product that’s doign so great this year.
god forbid a stray bullet flies across willow cuts filed into somerset primary
To be honest the White Hill Guys haven’t even been hanging on the roadside as often as they used too….Might want to try Court Street and Pontoons….Those areas need a clean sweep……………..
I congratulate and Thank the police Dept. For trying to make a difference. I am sure they have their reasons for starting in the area they have chosen. For all the idiots that have an issue with this, why don’t you become real men and find something constructive to do, we do have a storm coming, why not go help your neighbors rather than “congregating” and doing nothing.
Seems to me that Somerset is the only parish your not allowed to congregate in. North Hamilton is ok by all means. Got to protect the economic empowerment zone.
Mercy me! Exercising your Power! You need to be cleaning up court street you clowns.Are you retard€d or something, or just stupid,court street is were the problem is and your by passing it & coming country,& between 8am & 11:59pm you clowns are going to be country side, while the Parkside d¤gs will be sniffing between the devonshire rec,bay club & boat club doing a shoot out.You got to be just as sick as the guys that’s doing the $hit.All you guys stay in,dont trust them.42 & country beware of whats going on, these Police want you all d€ad or lock up,It wont even surpise me,if there in going round doing the bang banging to. RIP Wheels,Perry,Mico,Jason,Totti,Freddy,Shane,Kumi,Fish & were the Fu€k Rudy you Nasty cowards.
You serious,is this island wide or just the western end of the island,as my observation certain areas around the city i clearly see individuals congregating,and for sure they are not discussing on how to make Bermuda a safer place to live,if your gonna have these so called laws in place,this should be island wide….SMH…JUST WONDERING…..
i am glad that they will be returning under 17 year olds home to their parents. this is good. good job bps.
Yes, Bermuda is a place where you should be able to walk and sit wherever you like, and with whomever, however, there may be more to the reason as to why this action is being taken. I do not believe this is the only area that will be targeted. Why the police decided to make an annoucement is beyond comprehension. Why warn those who will be removed that you are coming within a certain timeframe? They will just leave and possibly return when the coast is clear. Bermuda is so small, maybe too small. These guys and gurls obviously need jobs or a hobby.
They need to a clean sweep on court street mm right there by spinning wheel mmm that gated area parking lot smh… I wonderign if those involved in tat business economic empowerment zon see that those hoodlums are hindering their plans….hmmmmmm and aint squash being done about them sitting areound doing a bunch of you know what..we all know they aint sitting there just assoiciating or has what they do become legal for them only considering they sit in the views of CCTV…puhh do they even work or the guys behind them are pulling a blind eye…ha check how the system a run
FREE BIG BRA ODEN! GUYS MISS YOU FAM!!
Its obvious that they are targeting specific areas. If you want to solve a problem, be consistent…don’t select the areas because their lil crew isn’t putting money in your pockets. Numerous people have commented about Court Street, this has been an ongoing problem for years smh. It’s all about who you are I guess
I wonder if there has been some information of this being a targeted spot or do the bps know for afact that this is a troubled spot? They may be privy to some “intelligence”
You guys just don’t get it do you.
Your missing the big picture here.
CCTV covers all the areas you discuss. All are known. It’s recorded whether you believe it or not.
Stuff is happening up west. Good on the police for taking steps.
Response time in the city is usually minutes and at times it is too late; no fault of poor policing.
Most who comment here condone this activity.
Police state?
No way. Just a bunch of people afraid or making monies off drugs et al.
Then again, talking to a deaf crew.
So because these areas that we are talking about have CCTV coverage, the crew should be excused? Rules are rules. You cannot just go picking and choosing who to pick on. If that’s the case why can’t they just install CCTVs in all the gangster areas?
Leave the West alone! These Parkside idiots started all this shootin sh#t not the WEST! Lets get that str8! So why the west!? The sad thing about this is that the BPS know this! The WEST IS “Gods Country”!
Last man standing and what will be of it.
Eating suck rocks and seaweed salad and still stealing from a garden that does not belong to you.
Sad.
Jamaica II.
@ Terry…FU u dont no sh#t about Jamaica!
terry u r jus a wasted piece of tape recording ….u hav bin programmed whether YOU WANNA BELIEVE IT OR NOT…you are the type of person who would cut off your own nose coz it was runnin’ …ya an A$$ and will stay an A$$ ya f#@kin A$$!!…A$$
The youth on this island have just made it easier for Total Population Control. They obviously are not educated nor have read documents on KA NAOMI, HAARP…, They don’t understand the fight, speech or history from Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman…
Their children will be home schooled by them on trivial stupid lessons – a stunted misguided education – probably teaching them of the parish they live in, how they killed a man from another parish…, eventually their homeschool teacher dad will be gunned down and the poor shooken-up children will remember their daddy in a photograph. It’s tragic for them. Your going down like dominoes.
Put your warped thoughts aside of the game that your in and think of your child, mother, girlfriend other family members and friends looking at you in your coffin. Life will not be easy for them when your gone!!! YOU ARE OF GREAT VALUE TO YOUR LOVED ONES!!! Death is final. Your dead brethren is NOT looking down from the sky on you. If you open his grave he is there…
Choose life! Learn to Love and start with loving yourself!!!
Am I suppose to clap my hands and thank the police? Because they made such a big deal about stopping the guys from hanging around Gun Alley when really all the boys did was just relocate themselves to Navy Field by the gate closest to Somerset Primary. So clearly the police FAILED!
The boys who hang in White Hill Area live in the White Hill area. So I don’t see why it is a problem for them to hang in the area. That is their neighborhood, GET OVER IT. However, if they are being a nuisance call the police! But I do not see why the police can just go around arresting boys for hanging a few meters from their own home.
Thank the Lord that some guys are choosing life. We have all failed particularly when we all sit back waiting for it to stop and do nothing. Clap your hands for the men that have fallen on their knees pleading for guidance and protection over their lives and their loved ones. I know and you know it’s an individual thought process for one to repent and as some do, they have turned their lives around, but the scars/damage – is/was/ impending severe. In life you can not always undo things.
Peoples eyes are wide open deliberate ignorance from…
Now, one should prefer what they are doing presently as apposed to martial law. Think for one minute police taking over government if the gun deaths continue, or a cop gets killed. I suggest gang members and the general public look up martial law, seriously it’s no joke. When they RAID WATCH OUT!!! Men, boys, gangs, new recruits, town, country put your guns down
ohhhh ok, the police disperse the somerset areas, but the known parkside areas never get touched !! smfh
This is just another way to waste tax payers money,,ok you may move them from the area but they will just end up somewhere else,most drug dealers these days operate by prepaid phones so it does not solve the drug dealing problem,i remember clean sweep in the 90s and all it did was shift people from one area to the next and thats why it aint happened again ever since and the sentences were way to harsh i remember one guy got 3 years for a 20dollar crack rock,240grand to lock sumone up for a 20 dollar rock is over the top..Most think that its the right thing to do but its not and until drugs are treated as a social problem and not criminal the gangs will stay,the police and government make more money while the taxpayers contribution to the war on drugs continues to rise without any results,,while creating contriversy we create curiosity and if these drugs were regulated and controled then the world would be a safer place,while they are ileagal kids and minors can get it no problem but put it behind the counter for over 21 or 18 less curiosity less contriversy..think about it
A lot of what is being said is tru why target area’s other then the known trouble makers such as parkside why is it they can still hang on a street were u hav government official buildings such as (PLP,new Police station n court buildings on clearly we need to wake up and stand up as a community and find back for what we believe in makes no sense commenting on this comment blog because it all goes over looked we need community petetions n people to stand up and speak out against wats goin on in bermuda but if we want this to change let’s not continue to complain about on blogs someone has to mek that step u hav to pull PLP card up on how much they want change that’s were the questions n demands shud be targeted as to why they are in power of the country the po po is just the inforcers not saying that the police don’t work —— for numerous of reason and occassion of things happening and goin on but change starts with what we change we as citzen hav rights and they should be heard but we hav 2 mek the first steps to b heard if we don’t make the steps neccesary nuffin will ever cum of it
the guys are probably resting there after a long PRODUCTIVE day at work !!!!!!!