Bridgetown.
Attorney at law David Comissiong, has written a letter to the Commissioner of Police Darwin Dottin and Director of Public Prosecutions Charles Leacock asking them that a foreign investigator be brought in to head the probe into the death of Jamar Andre Maynard.
The 27 year old Maynard was shot in the left arm by two police detectives who were on foot patrol in Bridgetown on the night of April 3, he died at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital the following day.
Comissiong, the legal represent
ative of Maynard's family says the police officer who shot Maynard should be suspended from duty until an inquiry is conducted.
"We feel very strongly that the police officer involved in the matter should be suspended from duty pending the investigation and we also think an outside investigator from one of our sister Caribbean jurisdiction, should be brought in to lead the investigations", Comissiong said.
He stated that he had no intention of being disrespectful to the Royal Barbados Police Force, however he strongly believed that justice must not only be done but seen to be done.
"I am not casting aspersion on them, the reality is that our police force is a small intimate organization where virtually everybody knows everybody else, I think the time has come not only in Barbados but throughout the Caribbean, where we have cases like this, that Caribbean police forces should do the sensible thing and bring in top quality investigators from sister Caribbean jurisdictions", Commissiong said.
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