‘Internal Investigation’ After Police Car Gets Stuck
[Updated: An internal police investigation has commenced into this morning's incident, which saw a police car get stuck on a flooded road after what a police spokesperson termed "an error in judgement by the police officers involved."]
This morning [Sept 30] a police car was brought to a crawl on Bakery Lane in Pembroke as the street — which is notorious for always flooding in heavy rains — showed the effects of the steady rainpour.
The island has been suffering through inclement weather for a few days, which has seen the cancellation of many events, and many instances of flooding.
One photo sent into to Bernews — entitled “police climb” — appears to show one police officer trying to maneuver the car out of the floods, and another climbing over a wall.
Update 10.14am: An additional photo showing the police making their way from the flooded car.
Update 10.39am: A police spokesperson said: “Today’s incident can only be described as an error in judgement by the police officers involved.
“The officers were uninjured and the vehicle was extracted and taken to the police compound where it will be fully assessed and evaluated. An internal investigation has commenced into today’s event.”
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New age Marine Police unit!!
Dumb. They should be suspended. As simple as that. They were negligent. But in Bermuda they will probably get a promotion. That’s how the system works.
Creating jobs for Bermudians.The new gaitor squad.
You can tell they not from around the area, and the one climbing probably couldn’t swim.
Lmawo
He is afraid to get his feet wet!!!! LMAO
These two were on deep water patrol… Good job guys you’ve shown your true colors and will definitely be up for a promotion. Keep doing dumb crap like this and you’d be surely taking over the top ranks… # Jacka****
Now we have to buy a new car for this stupidity!!!! And that is a new brand new police car.. Government workers look your days off will pay for this…
exactly. and those Subarus are only driven by sergeants and above! go figure
No they are not only driven by Sergeants and above….
oh ya?
they driven by all, have u seen any other type of police cars for the pc to drive.
Thanks J… Son so is as blind as the driver of that police car….
At least the garage is next dooe. LMAO
First the Costa Concordia, now this, ” Return to your ship at once captain” P.S. Hope they dont have guns
# poor judgement
# Better suited for mall security
It amazes me that people think that they can just drive through such deep water. Does it take that much effort to back out and find a way around that it is worth possibly doing thousands of $$ damage to your car?? Duuhhh….
IDIOTS!!!!!!!!!
everyone knows that this area floods so they don’t even try to drive through when the road is flooded da just suspend those 2fools for a month without pay by the way I don’t think they are Bermudians
where their from it is normal condition
Keystone Cops always made me laugh.
Are you guys for real?? They forgot they was not driving the JEEP…
don’t even drive the jeep though that
Is that the new amphibious police car?
Idiots…..plain and simple !
Bermudas dumbest cops!!! lol lol how could they not know how deep it gets around there? I hope the money comes out of their checks to fix that car and not out of tax payers money, cause clearly they done this to them selves. Dumb a**** lmao!!
Taxpayers money should not be used for their stupidity! They need to come out ot pocket!
Agreed, why should we pay for their stupidity and I bet there were making a breakfast run! smh
yup at buzzz
yes buzz was robbed by some goldfish and they where in hot pursuit!!!!!! as usual they got away!!! another unsovled crime hahaha!!
Take it out of their wages until it is paid off.
Two idiot police officers. Did they think they were in a boat. They should be made to pay for this car, but we the public will. When you are given a police licence, you are expected to use good judgement, there are places that you just cannot drive through, as these two fools just found out.
These guys are getting paid,for this!
It does not get any better than this.Common sense is not that common!
I guess they were looking for more people rowing boats in the area, perfect ticket opportunity.
Row, row, row your boat….
The one climbing the wall looks like he is trying to get away from a shark or something.
ROTFLOL!!!!!
probably cant swim!
No that is just him trying to chase after his common sense, which jumped the fence before the police got on the scene.
Maybe his tazer was shorting out and zapping his a**
@Climber: Yeah, he was trying to get away from ‘Sharknado’ (look it up if you don’t know what that is)!
Bad Boys, Bad Boys, What we gonna do? HILARIOUS
Gotta get that Buzz Ice Coffee at all cost!!! Gotta love our boys in blue!!
they will get charged for dereliction of duty and fined
U sure about that??
I will correct that. They SHOULD get charged, but won’t be. Didn’t you hear “the law doesn’t apply to the police”
UNBELIEVEBALE! Of course we will pay for this and probably new shoes and socks for their dumba**es. I mean what’s got to happen over there for people to realize you can drive through there a drowning! Come on Now! Laughing stock yet again!!
What a great way to start Police Week!!!
I wonder if that is a 5 knot no wake zone?
If the car isn’t moving, it isn’t making a wake!
That guy’s a** is already wet so why the hell is he climbing?
At least they aren’t the elite armed officers who’s judgement or lack thereof can result in someone being shot! The driver really should have had an observer with him. If only the flooding there happened more often (like last week) they may have been aware of it…..
Good thing they’ve got those expensive cameras they wear on them. That way they can review those and not waste money doing an investigation….
They should have chosen to go to Miles over Buzz…
Or the buzz that’s, you know, on the same block as the station.
I know depth sounder wasn’t working lol!!!
I read in the news that the marine police was moving. Looks as if they have moved to Bakery Lane.
Yup, the marine command boat will dock alongside Pembroke Paint during the next rain fall
Shark week…
“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”
” Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.”
Albert Einstein
This is who I’m supposed to call in case of emergency? I’m good thanks.
Is the driver going to be breathalyzed? There’s no way anyone is that stupid on purpose.
If they would have borrowed the commissioners jeep parked out on the street all day long then they could have drove through without getting stuck
Bermy’s finest!
You two will be speaking to the Commish by the end of the day. Trust me.
in hot pursuit of a bank robber named Goldfish. LOL
Them Bies make the Keystone Cops look like Miami Vice LMAO
On another note a fix for this area is long overdue. Raise the road and instal some drains!!!
Agreed. Im sick of seeing this area in the news everytime we get a few drops..
Ha, when did the police sept. get a sub
They have drains, the trouble is the only place for it to drain is into the wetlands. It for this very reason Woodlands and Canal floods, Bernard’s Park floods, Dundonald’s in front of Master’s floods. They are all areas that are the lowest points the rain drains into, while being just above the water level of the wetlands. Anybody who has lived in Bermuda for longer than a year learns these are the areas to avoid in a heavy rain.
Spongebob and Patrick Starfish………
Lol!
I am trying to figure out what made the driver want to continue!!!! In driving school they teach the drivers the law/guidelines of operating a vehicle, “Can My Safety Be Given Away” In this case the driver as soon as he made the turn into Bakery Lane, he should have STOPPED at the “C” in CMSBGA and reversed. This is also poor judgement by the passenger/co-pilot also. The driver is responsible, but I blame both for the situation they put themselves in. I wonder what grade the driver was ? I hope it wasn’t grade 1 !!! Suspended license and give them both a map of Bermuda when the roads are flooded for their carelessness. Lastly, I hope they were not outside their patrol area, cause if they were, I as a taxpayer don’t want to be paying for parts or replacement of a new vehicle.
And to think these “officers” can ticket us for careless driving. They should be charged for stupid driving.
Agreed. I hope the report is made public so everyone knows
is it possible they parked up for a sleep on the nightshift, secure in the knowledge that the rain would keep the bad boys at bay. Dreamt sweetly of waves lapping on the golden sands of the beaches of their homeland……then woke up to reality.
These dumb a**es wouldn’t even wind down the window to save the inside of the car. Oh right it was raining and they didn’t want to get wet!!!!!
one or both cops got the word “cruiser” mixed up with Cruise Ship.
Let see what we can come up with here….
“Ay buh, they said we ain’t gettin a bonus this year if we don’t save the department some money and de prices round bullshead carwash are eegrant!”
“Ay, where you goin? She just needs a little push.”
“Ay buh, guys need to move this before the commissioner sees it.”
“Ay dun, watch dis here, ima surf off de railin.”
“Ay buh, you think anyone seen us?” 0_0
“Ya man ya straight as long as you go wide open, I saw it on YouTube once.”
“Help! I can’t swim. Throw me one of buzz’s stale donuts.”
“Ay buh, you think anyone will notice the coffees a little watered down today?”
“F*** Mondays.”
“Ay buh, hold my beer n watch dis here.”
Yawn….@ come correct…
I guess po po thought the Subaru was not only AWD (All Wheel Drive) but a FD (Flotation Device). Talk about ruined it will cost as much to fix as to purchase a replacement. I know someone who drove a “IN” truck (no pun) and when he got the estimate he ended up buying a new truck.
Only in Bermuda are Marine police summoned after car gets stuck in puddle…
Bermuda’s Finest in Action…lol!
At this rate, number of comments will surpass the Nandi Davis story!
Aww, you mad? Neither are even remotely related. Thanks for you contribution of irrelevance.
Come correct, your comments are pretty boring to be fair…
Did you seriously just comment under a different name in a pathetic attempt to validate YOUR OPINION of my comment? Yea it’s not miss yourself funny but it’s a whole lot funnier than the money about to be wasted on “an error in judgement. Like this is the first time this area has flooded. Your initial comment is still irrelevant, to be fair.
Without commenting further on this issue. I wish to remind all that it is fairly common for a computer do be used by more than one person, in the home as well as the office. This of course means one icon could represent the views of more than one person.
It’s done by email address so they should use different emails if that’s the case. However clearly that is not the case and that person is just defending their own opinion under a different name but did it wrong.
And come correct is still kind of boring…
Three different names… and none of them a barrel of laughs…
Yet you feel it’s your place to criticize someone else for trying to be funny?
Weird.
And you’re attempting to deceive, I expect nothing less from cops.
@Come Correct: Take a chill pill-what do the relevance of the two stories have to do with anything? That wasn’t the point…
(I suppose you’ll turn on me now so before you do, let me say in advance that your post at 11:34 was pretty boring-I stopped reading after the first few…)
“what do the relevance of the two stories have to do with anything?”
Exactly! So what was the point? No evidence has come out about Nandi but I see photographic evidence all over this article. Furthermore you don’t see me doing this in a pathetic attempt to validate my comment….
hahaha @come correct your so funny!
“what do the relevance of the two stories have to do with anything?”
Exactly! So what was the point? No evidence has.come out yet about Nandi but I see photographic evidence all over this article. Why would I “turn” on you? Did you bring up an irrelevant topic or use a different name to validate your point? See how stupid it is when I do it?
CC are you a relation to ND? very defensive about her…
Never defended her, just said bringing up that topic is completely irrelevant here. Personally I don’t think she ever should have help a position in government but can you knock her for it? I bet it pays more than single dollar bills at a time.
“Cainsey” you are very defensive and your attempts at deflection are pathetic. Are you related to the BPS media relations manager?
His comment below to Soupah explains his defensiveness.
OMG, just realized the guy bolted And left the door open.. what will he do in “real” situations of danger?!
so what should he have done, sat in the car or closed the door to prevent water getting out?
These bies gave a whole new meaning to drive through car wash lol
They better make sure they clean that car.
Yeah back in my day, I had those lot cracking when it came to cleaning cars..
First one who climbs the fence wins a donut lol
Wow ,the adventures of dumb & dumber!! 1) What they lack in intelligence, more than makes up for in stupidity.2)
Are you always this stupid or are you making a special effort today.
Nobody messes with Bakery lane.
Give them buckets and let them start bailing.
Its a Subaru not a SUB-aru!!!!
You can’t see how deep it is by looking how far up the wall the water is. Elementry my dear Watson. I suppose WE the tax payers will be paying for a new car. My suggestion is take the money out of their pay and I know that won’t happen. DUH!
Obviously this is a case of DWD: Driving with a doughnut.
Driving while dumb is more like it.
On a serious note. Rayclan just sent the estimate and the engine’s a right off! Water in the intake…FRU!
As with most other things, the BPS are out of their depth!
error of Judgment “REALLY’ I say no common sense!!!
stupid *****….cancel der work permits!!
Bermuda’s new Amphibious Assault Services (A.S.S.) crack squad attempts to ford Lake Bakery, but with dismal success. Rumor has it that the A.S.S. team will retrieve the amphibious untit later today and perform minor modifications before attempting the feat gain during the next downpour. Good luck A.S.S. es
My vote is foe whoever got the pics to be hired by the department handling the CCTV situation.
I bet if they were driving there own car,they would avoid every little puddle on the road and give it a cleaning after getting wet.
Since this was not their car, no need to worry about it and just abuse the crap out of them.
Right!
If they really cared about preserving and minimizing the damage of the vehicle, why didn’t they just climb out through the window? Shows they don’t really care what the cost of their stupidity will be to us?
Yes that’s a great idea a because I’m sure water wouldn’t have gotten inside the car from any where else ! Can you not see that all the electrics of the car will be ruined anyway? Say goodbye to that Subaru.
Ok so this is truly the most talked about topic today… OMG seriously though I understand sometimes you cannot possibly know how deep the water is until you actually drive through it but CLEARLY you can see the water was beyond deep, what were they thinking!!!
Guess they will be on foot patrol for a minute!
Dem der buys wer probably on there deapth sounder i mean cell sounder!But on a positive note good publicity for Redlaser, they can get new gps from there.Also good publicity for Rayclan, gas,erl and water do not mix.
Put them on segways!
Bad boys bad boys, whatcha gonna do when the fish come for you! Lmao!
Mall Cops.
Now, they’ll get paid to go home, get a wash, go town, buy new shoes, charged to Bermuda Government, have the uniforms dry cleaned, charged to Bermuda Government, and have the rest of the day off, compliments of the Bermuda Government. Guaranteed, there will be NO repercussions on this one, just sweep the whole thing, along with the car under the carpet.
Lmao at least you know
They actually shot a Flare in the air and the Marine police came on land and rescued them!! I witnessed it!! it was a close one!!
The guy climbing the fence,must have thought Jaws was after him!
Dumb and dumber! Look at the officer in the last picture” Let me just hang on to the fence here…..looks like that could be the commissioner behind the fence!!! DODO BIRDS!!
chi chi bang bang
Sooo um saying mr officers u aint kno that u wasn’t getting threw for real i don’t understand why ppl keep doin this!
Damages should come directly out of their pay for their stupidity
Do the public get to read the internal report of this fiasco!
am I the only one that feels a little bit sorry for these guys? Maybe they are not aware that this street is notorious for flooding. Maybe they haven’t been here that long. Maybe no one told them. Why does our country have such an unsafe road? Why don’t they fix it or put up a sign indicating that it is dangerous and deep when flooding. Dutton Ave beside Bernard’s Park had cones up this morning so people would not drive in there. Why don’t they do this at Bakery Lane as well? Or do we accept that it is just normal to have an unsafe road and everyone is supposed to just know about it. Why doesn’t it get fixed?
Yes, yes you are. It doesn’t matter how long they’ve been here common sense should prevail and tell you not to drive through a flooded street. They have eyes and can see for themselves. This isn’t the United States we don’t need signs to tell people everything. It’s common sense so yes everyone should know.
NOT AWARE THE STREET FLOODS!!!!! The only pliable excuse is they would have to be blind!!!!
That water looks almost waist high I can bet you this they wouldnt have driven their own car through there!!!
Please dont try to defend stupidity!!!
sorry you can’t tell that one of the four officers couldn’t realize that they couldn’t making through with that car, YES FOUR OFFICERS IN THE CAR. The two in the back jumped out through the windows and left the other two to fend for themselves.
@ hot pursuit
There were FOUR officers with brains in the car? That makes matters worse!
PFD’s cheaper than kevlar.
Enough already. Do you want to drive the other cop up the wall?
POLICE ACADEMY COPS – THE NEW EDITION
As I said a few days ago on a different article, “our” police officers are incompetent and stupid. They are acting like the ground was about to open up and swallow them whole.
why dont you join the bps then, enlightened one.
That’s a pretty stupid comment so I’m going to guess and say you are a police officer. Thanks for the compliment though.
Even Jinx would have known better sheesh
You know, as poor as their judgment was, I don’t think it’s necessary to be quite as harsh as some people have been in their comments. They’re not the first people to have made this mistake, nor the first with a vehicle that belongs to their job, and I’ve no doubt they won’t be the last. Some consequence needs to come, dependent upon the state of the vehicle, but they’re going to take flak for some time about this and I’m certain the comments began before they opened the doors to climb out. They certainly brightened the morning of many people in the area.
Ya can tell which officer use to scale fences! LMAO!
After reading all these comments ..123 as a toll so far I can’t believe the comments.
This place has been flooding since Noah left.
I said 45 years ago ‘put up a gate and use it when heavy rains fall.
The depth of water is not known until this happens.
Stop the bull on the police. A misjudgment was made.
It affects you none.
Now go type something about who committed the last murder.
Lunch hour is over. Get back to work on my dime.
Terry must be a cop defending either his/her co worker or this was her dopey Husband who everyone is talking trash about. Oh please! People are going to continue to talk smack of this incident because, at the end of the day, wrong judgement or not,it is a dry news day, and the only thing wet and juicy is this incident. Go have a laugh and stop hating on those who like to have a sniggle now and then at other peoples stupidty.
Inspector Gadget and Sergeant Mahoney ina? SMH
Who dey gonna call? The Police?
Investigation for what they just thought it was a Submarine. They must be foreign cops because every Bermudian knows or should know that area floods. Bloody idiots.
these 2 idiots should be Charged with operating a Vehicle without due care and attention or whatever correct law applies.
I am tired of seeing PUBLIC Funds washed away!!!
What public funds wasted ‘Nuffin’.
Ever heard of insurance?
More to things to worry about that this incident.
Bet yah never been involved in anything except sex.
De most ignorant thing this year,fire them both!
…and this is who is patrolling our streets and trying to catch the gangstas with guns! Smdh!
The one climbing the fence musta saw a gator and took off and looks like he left his partner to be the bait. sheesh
These guys supposedly have to take a driving course to qualify for any patrol vehicle. Basic driving sense tells you not to drive through water that you don’t know the depth of.
The Bakery Lane Pond is well known to anyone driving.
The damage caused to this vehicle by the nut behind the wheel should be taken out of his wages. This was completely avoidable. Put him behind a desk & keep him there for a long time.
I am sure this car is insured. The insurance company won’t be happy either.
Insurance companies will value it for less than it is truly worth…plus depends if BPS had flood insurance! LOL! This is no accident, pure stupidity!!!
How do you word this insurance claim? I was driving down de road to de Bakery shop for some donuts and de byes in de car said “go ahed man you can make it, make de nip cause wer runnin late” and I didn’t see the puddle.
perfect example of a DUI (driving under the influence of stupidity)
this put a huge smile on my face .Thanks
Got to smile about this one; I used to be the postman for this area; I gave it the name Bangladesh after the flooding that seem to overwhelm that country during the time I was the postman.
One thing the flooding in the area never stop me and I was on a push bike and later rode a motor bike in the area; Oh and the mail never got wet. I guess it is not a area for the police; although I don’t know what one policeman was running from? during my day there was only a frog or two in the water.
There aren’t many things that Dwayne Caines says that I agree with, he said that this is no laughing matter………… I agree with that with regard to the taxpayer. But one hast to admit, these guys are jacka****!!
no govt vehicle is insured if it is under $100k…bet u didn’t know that!
I think they were looking for that woman’s plant pot your boy threw overboard.
I do not know any one who lives here long enough that does not know that you cannot drive through that road on a day like today. It was certainly shocking to see a police vehicle stuck there. And yes I did laugh.
I understand that their judgement was a bit off. It is obvious that they did not realize how deep the water in that area can get, so give them a break. It could have happened to anyone. Last week I saw a new BMW get stuck in the same place and no one made any fun of them.
these bies don’t know it, but they just won themselves a personal submarine. lol
Even Bernews took a poke “brought to a crawl” – ya bye that car was swimmin!
Even Bernews could not resist “a police car was brought to a crawl” – ya bye that car was swimmin!
“Error in judgement”….. Ya think!!!! They musta thought they had the amphibious vehicle… SMH!!!
Ignorance is curable but stupidity is permanent. Just glad no one was injured.
Someone needs to investigate buzz! Find out what was in that coffee. Rum or Vodka. Or maybe both. Actually, I think they were trying to get their last swim for the summer. Kudos for being creative!
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!!! They must have lowered the “intelligence level” to get into the BDA police force!! If this happened in my neck-of-the-woods in the States – these guys would have to pay out of their own pockets to haul that cop car out-of-the-water!! Then they would have to deal with their superiors!!
u know it was not berme cops because v bie;s can swim in any water looks like dem rookies don’t like de water wat a big joke
no new car for u…let them walk.
i heard they both was screaming MOMMY! as they ran out of the car….thats what i heard
I wonder if they called the police…