Customs To Take Firearm Familiarity Course
Staff from HM Customs will undertake a familiarisation course designed to help spot firearms and their components in a partnership with the Bermuda Regiment.
And soldiers will also advise Customs officers on how to make weapons safe and how to deal with ammunition.
Regiment Training Officer Major Martin Wyer said, “The Regiment is happy to share its experience with the other services on the island.
“It’s all part of making sure all the services are working together and cross-training wherever possible in each other’s areas of expertise.”
Between 15 and 20 Customs officers will spend the day at Warwick Camp on Friday, April 4, and will learn how to use and strip down a variety of weapons from the Regiment’s armoury to familiarise themselves with what the working components look like.
Maj. Wyer said: “Bermuda remains a relatively safe place, but it is not beyond the realms of possibility people might try to smuggle firearms, parts of them or ammunition into the island.
“We can help our colleagues in Customs with what to look for, how to safely handle any weapons or ammunition they might find and help to make Bermuda even safer.”
Regiment Commanding Officer Lt Col Michael Foster-Brown added, “It is a tribute to the professionalism and training of our soldiers that HM Customs has asked us to assist them like this.
“It’s all part of our commitment to working very closely with the other uniformed services as part of our mandate to support the civil authorities in a variety of roles.”
Collector of Customs Lucinda Pearman said, “It’s good to see all the uniformed services on the island working together and sharing their areas of expertise.
“We welcome the opportunity to have our officers working with the Regiment to enhance the crucial service they provide in keeping contraband of whatever kind off the streets of Bermuda.”
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why is it that this is painted as a first time event?
PR is a good thing but inflated PR is never a good thing. this scheme started under another CO a looong time ago. hope these Brits up there aren’t trying to dupe the public like the CoH was duped into thinking that they have improved the Regiment any.
lol!
Yep, Brits trying to justify their being here.
Bermuda is a British Overseas Territory, and consequently the British have an undeniable justification for being here,it is in our best interest to have the security of a Military.
that in itself is as non-sensical as it gets. not every facet of life in Bermuda has a direct british link, least of all the Regiment which unlike the Legislature, the Judiciary and many other Constitutionally regulated areas of public service in Bermuda have no Brits justifying their existence merely because they are not needed.
BTW – the UK still has no Constitution – unlike its “territory”. SMH
Where does it say it is a first time event? It doesn’t. It says 15-20 Customs officers will get training. And as for Brits – virtually everyone I know in the regiment is Bermudian. I suspect Brits are few and far between.
Observers are normally obser-vant and obviously your knowledge of the Regiment is apparently limited.
we both can see that it does not say it is a first time event but the comment was – “painted as a first time event”.
how you interpret that is up to you but there is no reference made to how long this has been going on and in typical Brit fashion – it is claimed as “mine” with no reference made to the history of such a worthwhile bunch of training.
don’t take it personally – this is a blog; a public arena for readers to comment and i am certainly speaking on fact and not supposition.
in a similiar fashion to how Marco Polo travelled east and bought back spaghetti which many believe to be invented by the italians (whilst the chinese had been making noodles for many many many years before MP bought it back to the western world).
just a comment on what is truth – the words on this page ar ehte truth i refer to.
moving on in other news……………MP Moniz speaks about sewage reports!