Police Probe Leaked Internal Alert About Threats Against Officers

The Royal Saint Lucia Police Force (RSLPF) is investigating the leakage of an internal document detailing numerous social media death threats against officers. The threats followed Saturday’s police-involved fatal shooting of Maxwell Duncan, alias ‘Hennessy’. Maxwell, described as known to the police and a ‘notorious gang leader’, was on bail for a firearm possession charge when he sustained the fatal gunshot injuries. According to the police document, verified as authentic by St. Lucia Times and which has gone viral on social media, there is a strong possibility that members of a named gang would retaliate for Duncan’s death. The document included photographs of some alleged gang members, all of them residents of Marigot, where the deceased Maxwell Duncan also resided. It also outlined measures to deal with the threats against officers. A senior police officer who spoke anonymously to St. Lucia Times condemned the leakage of the internal police document, entitled ‘Law Enforcement Alert’, declaring that the leak would have come from a police officer. The senior cop explained that Heads of Departments would have received the alert and would likely have shared it with their staff. “This was an intelligence report meant for officers, not for the public,” the...