{"id":33430,"date":"2013-03-25T10:24:46","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T14:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=33430"},"modified":"2013-03-25T10:25:14","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T14:25:14","slug":"police-force-concerned-about-its-bad-reputation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/03\/police-force-concerned-about-its-bad-reputation","title":{"rendered":"Police Force Concerned About Bad Reputation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-33134\" title=\"Bahamians do not trust the Bahamas Police Force \" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/no-trust.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/no-trust.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/no-trust-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>The number of police brutality allegations and string of recent deaths while in police custody has led Police Commissioner Ellison Greenslade to be concerned about the police force\u2019s reputation.<\/p>\n<p>He said he is &#8220;absolutely&#8221; worried that reports of police abuse may be affecting the public\u2019s perception of the Royal Bahamas Police Force.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen your public loses confidence in you then, of course, you are on very, very shaky ground. So we have a lot of work to do going forward to try to right some of these things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Commissioner said the RBPF will enforce the full brunt of the law, even to its own officers who are caught stepping out of line.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(There have been) a variety of things, (with some of our officers) professional conduct, unethical conduct, actions bordering on criminality and sometimes criminality, exposure to drugs, dishonesty&#8230; all sorts of matters,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police Commissioner Ellison Greenslade is concerned that the number of police brutality allegations and recent deaths while in police custody will further degrade the police force\u2019s reputation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[93,31,173,38],"class_list":["post-33430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-corruption","tag-crime","tag-injustice","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}