Garde Expresses Confidence In Saint Lucia’s Judicial Process

Amid concerns that the courts may be dropping the ball in the fight against crime with slaps on the wrist for severe offences and bail for gun-related crime, Acting Police Commissioner Verne Garde has expressed confidence in the judiciary. “Let me register my confidence in the judicial process in Saint Lucia. We have very competent judges and magistrates that assist in the judicial process generally,” Garde told St. Lucia Times. He disclosed that police seized more than nine illegal firearms within eighteen days, amounting to one firearm every other day. Garde said all the matters are before the court. “We must allow the judiciary and the judicial process to take its natural course,” he stated Garde said the issue of serious crime in the region and globally was serious, and Saint Lucia must do all it can to improve the situation. He noted that the RSLPF had ‘moved aggressively’ to manage serious crime over the past month and a half. In this regard, Garde spoke of a ‘forensic approach’ to dealing with illegal guns and ammunition. & & & The article Garde Expresses Confidence In Saint Lucia’s Judicial Process is from St. Lucia Times.