Vincentian policeman fired over internet blogs

Allan Palmer, the controversial Vincentian policeman has been fired from the Bermuda Police Service.{{more}}

Palmer, a prolific letter writer who ran afoul of the Bermudian Police authorities over postings he made on his Internet blog, ‘Crushing Fools’, was eventually dismissed after being suspended earlier this year.

“In his blogs, Mr. Palmer has continually misrepresented information and expressed personal views that are inappropriate for a member of the Bermuda Police Service,” a release from the Bermuda police states.

“Mr Palmer claims that the Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines Dr the Hon. Ralph Gonsalves, Bermuda’s Commissioner of Police Mr George Jackson and one of his Superintendents, Mr Randolph Liverpool, are all conspiring against him after he wrote an article critical of Dr Gonsalves following sexual assault allegations made against the Prime Minister. This could not be further from the truth,” the release further states.

The release accuses Palmer of totally fabricating his claim, and noted that Commissioner of Police Keith Miller had written formally to his Bermudian counterpart complaining about Palmer’s conduct.

Palmer had also said that his phones were tapped and listening devices placed inside his room and that a woman was used in an entrapment plot against him. All these claims have also been stoutly denied by the Bermudian police.

Palmer was at one time a police officer in St Vincent and the Grenadines.

George Jackson, also a native Vincentian, was named Commissioner of Police in Bermuda in December of 2005, to become that country’s first ever black Commissioner of Police.