Netherlands and St. Maarten sat chatting about the problems in the criminal investigation in St. Maarten. Minister Ard van der Steur (VVD, Security and Justice) receives his counterpart of the Caribbean island, reports the NOS. Following is a report of a visit by police chief Gerard Bouman, in which he indicates that he does not want to cooperate with corrupt drivers.
Bouman, who is the head of the National Police, writes that the criminal and undermining the integrity issues “extremely worrying proportions” assume. Lying behind conflict, according to the NOS the refusal of St Maarten to cooperate in the creation of separate criminal intelligence system which can work out to the local police.
Minister Richardson last month would have given the Attorney General of the Common Court of Justice orders to cease preparations for setting up the service. He thinks that St. Martin itself must be responsible for law enforcement on the island. Van der Steur says that without the new service is impossible to separate to keep the underworld and upper world.
Research, last year, of consultancy firm PwC revealed among other things that the police will not function sufficiently, and that laws are barely maintained. According to the PwC report reigns in St. Maarten an atmosphere of cronyism and there are many issues around integrity on the island since 2010 an independent country within the Kingdom.
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