Police Execute Warrant In Court Street Area
[Updated] There is a large police presence in the Court Street area this afternoon [Dec 30], with a number of police officers, including what appears to be armed officers, visible at the scene.
As of this writing [1.44pm], at least one road is blocked off, and bystanders are watching the proceedings. Details are limited at this time, however we will update as able.
Update 2.07pm: Inspector Robert Cardwell confirmed that the police executed a warrant at a residence in the area, which he said “involved the deployment of a number of armed police assets as a result of the risk assessments that were done prior to the execution of the warrant.”
When asked if anyone has been arrested, Inspector Cardwell said “No one was arrested as a result of that warrant, but three men are accompanying us to the station on unrelated matters.”
Busy, busy, busy. Keep up the good work. When will the courts do the same?
this was so unnecessary i wintessed this happen pure cops guns all that…. they arrested 2 who literally walked back down the road half hour later it was a waste of time
You can’t make any judgement unless you were involved in the police’s activity and conversation. Don’t be too quick to judge just what you saw as a bystander.
Yes, but I am concerned about how heavily armed the police are. This is not a good sign to me.
i agree with you Kim , all of us should be concerned that the Police HAVE to be armed to the teeth now a days…it just clarifies how *#@** up OUR relatives are, because i don’t think they went there looking for a visitor, but more than likely it was for one of OUR brothers, sisters, uncle, cousin, nephew or even grandpa..? you get what im sayin..right?. Just remember every time these dreamers act up…MORE RESTRICTIONS ARE PUT ON YOU AND I…them dryrots don giva *#*…nothing worth while savin between their ears…family or no family….
Sorry, force has to be met with force. The bad guys are armed. You can’t expect the cops to go after armed bad guys with a billy stick & a taser.
Nothing wrong with cops carrying guns. Nothing wrong with ALL of them carrying guns, even if the guns are only of small caliber. That is still better protection than a taser.
there was an officer pictured aiming a H&K MP5 sub-machine gun, 9MM caliber,
Rate of fire:
800 rounds/min (MP5A series, MP5/10 and MP5/40)- 13 rounds a second
700 rounds/min (MP5SD series)- 12 rounds a second
900 rounds/min (MP5K series)- 15 rounds a second
overkill for Bermuda? you betcha!
oh thanks for your esteemed opinion…overkill my rear end. maybe the 30 dead and the public shootings might be best described as OVERKILL dont you think.
@Cottereaux
You have listed theoretical rates of fire for the weapon in the picture. Note that there is not a multi-hundred round magazine loaded onto it.
Also, by what criteria have you deemed that weapon overkill for Bermuda? Therefore, which weapons would pass your “non-overkill” muster?
Ride
@Ride, I listed the manufacturers publicly stated rate of fire per minutes, then divided by 60 secs to obtain a rate per second. Having fired a MP5, there is nothing theoretical about how fast the weapon fires.
If you knew anything about firearms, you would know one does not need a “multi-hundred round magazine loaded onto it” to achieve the stated rate of fire. You do know one can reload a weapon?
A full 30 round magazine would “theoretically” empty in just over 2 seconds. Think what would happen if someone firing on full automatic sneezed, coughed, or flinched; while firing, bullets everywhere.
Given the population density of Bermuda, the possibility of a civilian getting hit is high. Bit I am stating the obvious.
I was not trained on use of non-lethal weapons, all my training was in lethal weapons, except CS (military tear gas). However, Taser invented a Taser shotgun round that has a lot more range than their Taser pistols. The TASER eXtended Range Electronic Projectile (XREP™) and the TASER® X12™ Less-Lethal Shotgun (LLS) by Mossberg became available on June 30, 2009. There obviously are similar non-lethal products out on the market.
There are options to deploying fully automatic weapons.
Question to you: What would happen if a police officer misplaced the weapon due to carelessness, or left the weapon in an unlocked vehicle, or vehicle is broken into, or the MP5 taken away in a fight with a criminal, or a disgruntled police officer/employee steals an MP5 and sells it to criminals? BIG CAT out of the bag on those scenarios!
You can’t put the genie back in the bottle on real life scenarios.
They’re shooting at the Police now, and you want to make sure the Police don’t have better weapons? Give them guns that fire a bit slower, to make sure they don’t have an unfair advantage?
Creamy, I am saying police in Bermuda have no need for fully automatic weapons. forget what you see on TV and in the movies about police being expert shots. police are notoriously poor shots. you need to practice all the time to become an expert with a weapon. thinking the Bermuda police are not on the range weekly firing 300+ rounds per officer.
their training is to shoot, and shoot, and keep shooting until they run out of ammo. the rate of automatic fire on an MP5 is incredible. you have safe, single shot, and fully automatic as options. no setting for a three round burst. in the heat of a fire fight, expect fully automatic fire going all over the place.
pay attention to the downside of those examples I cited above where criminals end up getting police automatic weapons.
@Cottereaux
Firstly, You’ve missed it. You have to reload and have available 800 rounds to being with. Think about it. 30 round mags and I’d venture that they have 4 mags each on them. You not going to see the theoretical rate of fire in practice.
Secondly, You have not answered the question of what firearm you would consider “non-overkill” for our law enforcement to protect themselves from criminal weapons fire.
Thirdly, “What if someone sneezed”?! You appear to be clueless concerning weapon handling by trained professionals.
Ride
PS: I do have experience firing a range of weapons; handguns, sub-machine guns, rifles, and machine guns. You know … for the record.
@Ride, Allow me to retort:
Firstly, you can reach “the theoretical rate of fire in practice” with a 30 round MAGAZINE not a clip. Amateurs call a MAGAZINE a clip. That is why I calculated the rate of fire per second. Anyone with real life experience of firearms would know this. Apparently, you missed that class.
Secondly, I stated my training is in lethal firearms, not non-lethal. I did however provided examples of far reaching non-lethal weapons such as the Taser shotgun round. One can use a standard shotgun to fire the round, and still use regular ammunition in the shotgun AS NEEDED. Additionally, I am not here to consult with the police department on their choice of weapons, just pointing out the obvious dangers of using any fully automatic weapon in a densely population area.
Thirdly, my scenarios are based upon real world experience. People do sneeze, cough, flinch, etc; it is called an “involuntary reflex action.” Accidents do happen in the heat of the moment. Apparently, you missed that lecture in your weapons training.
I left out mentioning seeing trained professionals running, and even walking, with various fully automatic weapons including an MP5; tripping, and discharging their weapon on full automatic. Things do happen.
You have absolutely failed to impress me with your weapons knowledge and experience. You also deliberately failed to answer my REAL WORLD scenario questions:
Question to you: What would happen if a police officer misplaced the weapon due to carelessness, or left the weapon in an unlocked vehicle, or vehicle is broken into, or the MP5 taken away in a fight with a criminal, or a disgruntled police officer/employee steals an MP5 and sells it to criminals?
Come on, man up and answer my question. What are you going to do now that criminals have a fully automatic MP5 curtsey of the police department? Bring in a drone with Hellfire missiles?
@Ride, my bad, you did not say clip. was reading comments from another story.
No one is surprised at your response Drifter. We all know that in your mind that kind of force is fine so long as people that look like you aren’t exposed to or affected by it.
Racist. Just sayin’.
Kim what planet are you on, its not a good sign when there are 30 murders perpetrated by black youth. Your country has changed, wakeup dopey
Pleaz elaborate, as to why that is your concern.
@ big Boss. It’s pretty simple. In my books, violence inspires violence.
@ Terry. I’m not sure how you decided that “I am not concerned about my ‘bothers’ being murdered” but, for the record, you are wrong.
@Kim Smith.
Your not concerned about your bothers being murdered.
Do the count.
What an asinine comment.
yeah T…can u type with out being drunk..? for once…
I find it unacceptable that the police will not release the name of the person they are looking for and why they are looking for him. If this person is dangerous, which judging from the show of force they apparently are, the public have every RIGHT to have this information.
Ridiculous!!
Totally agree. Never understood why the big secret when the cops are after somebody. They plea for help from the public but don’t make public who they are looking for.
Makes no sense at all.
Our neighbours to the west put your miserable face all over the media, why they are after you & what you did before. More often than not they will have your backside in custody within days thanks to the help of citizens.
no they dont…who says that????
Some of you just come here looking for there name. if u are wanted you would know or people around you would know.and tell u they are looking for you. Imo they should not name no body that has a case up until after trial in case u not guilty u wont get blasted
EVERYTHING that Farrakhan warned us about has come to past. EVERYTHiNG!!
“…eventually they will turn the guns on us (gangs’criminals) . Then the police will arm themselves and will be kicking down your door only to kill your son or daughters… Get your kids of the proverbial ‘wall’ NOW!. This is all systematic! Bermuda is NO different then the rest of the world.
@Outkasted
Surely no one needed Farrakhan to tell them that if you continue in a life of crime and allow your community to become crime ridden (by protecting the criminals, living off of the proceeds of crime, and so on) that law enforcement agencies will eventually end up searching your community and homes for criminals in a manner that defends themselves against criminal violence.
This has been pretty much a given since that concepts of laws and law enforcement were invented long, long ago.
Ride
All the taxs payers money gone down the drain guns cost money .guns that get used for show cost b.d.a how much $$$$$$$$$$$ then they want pepper spray cars vest stunn guns they all cost money then to fixs upgrade I dont get it do u wagaan
who is warrant?….must have been a really bad fellow….capital idea….we certainly need a deterent of dome pertitudinal use of functionality not abase to desired necessity!
dome was meant to be some….
now…whos: money is it?….
Bermuda has changed for the worse in some areas of our society ,to think we can just call Billy’s mom when he acts out is way gone.Billy probably *&$*s his parents off when he and his friends can’t smoke weed on the front porch of a house he doesn’t contribute to financially.We had been living in the matrix for years in Bermuda nothing should surprise you.
“Welcome to the desert of the real”……..Morpheus.