Published: 10 May 2021
PHILIPSBURG, Sint Maarten The National Detectives Agency (Landsrecherche) doesn’t comply with the most essential preconditions (financial, material, and personnel resources) in order to properly function. The Law Enforcement Council (hereafter: the Council) has drawn this conclusion in its most recent inspection report about the Agency.
“The Council concludes that the Agency is at this time unable to (independently) carry out its legal tasks (optimally). The basic conditions for this are lacking,” the Council stated in its report which is published today. The Council concluded that, “Despite the plans to build the Agency, there are still several serious bottlenecks 10 years after the establishment of Sint Maarten’s own National Detectives Agency.”