{"id":9027,"date":"2011-05-31T08:52:35","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T12:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=9027"},"modified":"2011-05-31T08:52:35","modified_gmt":"2011-05-31T12:52:35","slug":"wikileaks-cables-reveal-power-struggle-in-bahamas-police-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/05\/wikileaks-cables-reveal-power-struggle-in-bahamas-police-force","title":{"rendered":"Wikileaks Cables Reveal Power Struggle in Bahamas Police Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Then Acting Commissioner of Police Reginald Ferguson in early 2009 told  United States Embassy officials that he had recommended to Prime  Minister Hubert Ingraham as early as November 2007 that all but one of  the then assistant commissioners of police be dismissed, including now  Commissioner Ellison Greenslade, according to a U.S. embassy diplomatic  cable obtained by <em>The Nassau Guardian<\/em> from WikiLeaks.<\/p>\n<p>The February 2009 confidential cable revealed that the only assistant  commissioner Ferguson thought should remain was Marvin Dames.\u00a0 Dames,  who was subsequently made deputy commissioner in January 2010, is now  leaving the Royal Bahamas Police Force (RBPF) to reportedly head the  security division at Baha Mar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Diplomats were quite cognisant of the power struggle on the Bahamas police force but apparently were too naive to see how corruption, not politics, was a major factor in the inner workings of the force.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"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":[93,74,40,60,38],"class_list":["post-9027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-corruption","tag-fnm","tag-government","tag-plp","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9027","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}