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Crime in Bermuda
by Admin on Tue May 20, 2008 8:18 am
Bermuda Online
Tourist Crime Unit:
Bermuda's many crimes against tourists have received such bad publicity in the USA (from where over 80% of tourists come), Canada and UK that a Tourist Crime Unit has been established, using 2 members of the 469-strong Bermuda Police.
Criminal Injuries Compensation Board: Visitors raped, murdered and sodomized in Bermuda, or their families, should not expect quick or generous or any compensation. Only dependants, not family members, are usually eligible. In the case of raped, sodomized, tortured and murdered 17-year old Canadian visitor Rebecca Middleton, her family had to wait 10 years and in 2006 got only a nominal $2,840.63.
Crime
Internationally, Bermuda has a medium-high crime rate - as duly noted by both Britain and the United States of America in their travel advisories. But there are probably more crimes in Bermuda per capita - per square mile among its 68,000 residents in 21 square miles than anywhere else in the world. In the 1970s, a Governor, his aide and the Chief of Police were assassinated. in 1996, there was a notorious rape, torture, sodomy and murder of a 17 year old innocent Canadian tourist. (See under "Rebecca Middleton" in Bermuda Laws). Most crimes locally are by locals seeking illegal narcotics or the money to pay for them. They trespass by night or day at premises used by visitors and locals. Some may have illegal guns. These thieves go after valuables like cash and credit cards not locked in safes. The crime rate is such that all visitors should not, under any circumstances, leave your room or suite or cottage sliding glass doors or apartment windows or doors unlocked by day or night. If you merely lock a nylon screen from the inside by night or by day if you are out, you risk being robbed by thugs who will cut the screen and enter. Always use a secure safe in your room - and inform the local police promptly if you are robbed or assaulted. Also, be wary of venturing out at night and do not carry a handbag on you or when you are on a moped or scooter, in a place where it can be easilysnatched by a thief.
Tourist Crime Unit:
Bermuda's many crimes against tourists have received such bad publicity in the USA (from where over 80% of tourists come), Canada and UK that a Tourist Crime Unit has been established, using 2 members of the 469-strong Bermuda Police.
Criminal Injuries Compensation Board: Visitors raped, murdered and sodomized in Bermuda, or their families, should not expect quick or generous or any compensation. Only dependants, not family members, are usually eligible. In the case of raped, sodomized, tortured and murdered 17-year old Canadian visitor Rebecca Middleton, her family had to wait 10 years and in 2006 got only a nominal $2,840.63.
Crime
Internationally, Bermuda has a medium-high crime rate - as duly noted by both Britain and the United States of America in their travel advisories. But there are probably more crimes in Bermuda per capita - per square mile among its 68,000 residents in 21 square miles than anywhere else in the world. In the 1970s, a Governor, his aide and the Chief of Police were assassinated. in 1996, there was a notorious rape, torture, sodomy and murder of a 17 year old innocent Canadian tourist. (See under "Rebecca Middleton" in Bermuda Laws). Most crimes locally are by locals seeking illegal narcotics or the money to pay for them. They trespass by night or day at premises used by visitors and locals. Some may have illegal guns. These thieves go after valuables like cash and credit cards not locked in safes. The crime rate is such that all visitors should not, under any circumstances, leave your room or suite or cottage sliding glass doors or apartment windows or doors unlocked by day or night. If you merely lock a nylon screen from the inside by night or by day if you are out, you risk being robbed by thugs who will cut the screen and enter. Always use a secure safe in your room - and inform the local police promptly if you are robbed or assaulted. Also, be wary of venturing out at night and do not carry a handbag on you or when you are on a moped or scooter, in a place where it can be easilysnatched by a thief.
