A Photo from 34 years ago?

A Photo from 34 years ago?

The photo below was just published on the BPS official Facebookpage (25th January 2022) which was congratulating a certain very senior police officer, still serving with the BPS who  was celebrating his 34th year anniversary in the Bermuda Police Service.  We would like to know who the officer is, where and when this photo was taken, and most important, who are the officers in it.

You can view the article on the BPS Facebook page at  https://www.facebook.com/bermudapoliceservice/

We had an excellent effort by Davie Kerr who was able to name most of these officers, and recalled that they were all given consecutive numbers (509 through 517)  as per his comments below.

One of these new recruits was young P.C. Martin Weekes who has stayed the course of a long and distinguished career in the BPS and as of this writing is still serving as Acting Commissioner after 34 years. 

We turned to Martin to assist us in identifying those present for the photo and he provided the names in the caption below the photo.  He also provided us with information about each of the men who joined with him in 1988 as follows:-

Editors  note -  Then Commissioner Fred "Penny" Bean passed away in December 2018.  The Late Supt George Garrod passed away suddenly  in October 1988,  just a few months after this photo was taken.  Sinclair White and Tony "A.J" Smith are still very much with us. Sinclair resides on Island and we're not sure where Tony is these days but will check to see if we can touch base with him.