Acting Assistant Commissioner of Police James Howard (Crime Division) & Acting Detective Chief Inspector Dave Greenidge (Officer in Charge of the Serious Crime Unit) - The shooting incidents that took place yesterday on Remembrance Day in Devonshire and Sandys Parish caused serious injury to four people and could easily have injured or killed more.

The public is quite rightly outraged at the callous actions of the criminals involved in firing bullets into groups of innocent people, with reckless disregard for those who might be killed or injured.

Outrage is an appropriate reaction to such despicable crimes and now is the time for those who know something to say something. Our community must respond by helping the police to catch and convict these few offenders who present such a threat to the safety of us all. These criminal acts cannot and should not be condoned.

You can be assured that the Bermuda Police Service will use every lawful power available to:

bring offenders to justice,

suppress the violence and

take opportunities to prevent current tensions from escalating further.

These enforcement activities will likely inconvenience many and we apologize for that and ask for your patience and support as we do everything we can to disrupt those few among us who seem hell-bent on violence.

We cannot allow these persons to shoot one day and walk amongst us the next as if nothing has happened.

The Bermuda Police Service has a good track record of successful prosecutions but we must have information to assist investigations. Together we can make Bermuda safer by rooting out these few.

To the communities affected by the cowardly acts of these persons, it is understandable that you are outraged.  I can only reiterate that information is essential to our investigations and the advice “IF YOU KNOW SOMETHING – SAY SOMETHING” can only help.

Over the course of the next few days you will see an influx of uniformed officers who will be assisting with the door to door enquires, providing relevant information, and hopefully obtaining any information that you may have in relation to the shooting incidents or any other suspicious activity that you may have noticed.