{"id":58107,"date":"2014-04-02T11:04:57","date_gmt":"2014-04-02T15:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/target\/sands-u-s-embassys-reporting-of-crimes-raises-questions"},"modified":"2014-04-02T11:06:05","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T15:06:05","slug":"can-we-trust-our-police-commissioner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2014\/04\/can-we-trust-our-police-commissioner","title":{"rendered":"Can We Trust Our Police Commissioner?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_22825\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22825\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22825\" alt=\"Police Commissioner Ellison Greenslade\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ellison-greenslade.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ellison-greenslade.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ellison-greenslade-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22825\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police Commissioner Ellison Greenslade<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p id=\"mct_ai_excerpt\">Free National Movement (FNM) Deputy Chairman Dr. Duane Sands said yesterday the fact that the United States Embassy in Nassau has once again made a crime public that was not reported by police \u201ccreates room for speculation\u201d about the Royal Bahamas Police Force\u2019s policies.<\/p>\n<p>Sands was contacted to respond to comments Assistant Commissioner Anthony Ferguson made to The Nassau Guardian on Sunday in defense of police policies on crime reports.<\/p>\n<p>Ferguson responded to a previous Nassau Guardian article which pointed out that a new U.S. Embassy crime warning referenced an attempted armed robbery of an armored truck at Wendy\u2019s restaurant two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>The matter was not included in police crime reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat Bahamians ought to be asking ultimately is who is determining what ought to come to the attention of the Bahamian people,\u201d Sands said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf there is a discrepancy and the U.S. Embassy or one of its agents would report something that was not reported locally [by police] then we have to ask why or how did that happen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p id=\"mct-ai-attriblink\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenassauguardian.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=46287:sands-us-embassys-reporting-of-crimes-raises-questions&amp;catid=3:news&amp;Itemid=27\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to read the complete article at www.thenassauguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf there is a discrepancy and the U.S. Embassy or one of its agents would report something that was not reported locally [by police] then we have to ask why or how did that happen.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":22825,"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":[31,38,163,2006],"class_list":["post-58107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-crime","tag-police","tag-society","tag-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58107","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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}