Cannabis and crack/cocaine, with an approximate street value of $5,205,43o, have been destroyed by local police.
2,045.12 pounds of Cannabis, valued at E.C. $2,045,120; 1.25 pounds of Cannabis seeds worth E.C. $1,250; 303 pounds of Cannabis plants valued at E.C. $303,000; 105.78 Kilograms of cocaine worth E.C. $2,856,060 were all consumed by fire at the Police Training School at the Morne Bruce facility on Friday morning.
Police Inspector, Pellam Jno Baptiste told Dominica News Online that the matters surrounding the narcotics have been dealt with in the High Court and “go back a number of years.”
“When the matters are done, when there is no appeal, we have to destroy the drugs. We don’t keep them,” he said.
Jno Baptiste brought to light the false allegations against the police force saying that “we don’t cover up corruption.”
“We don’t cover up wrong doing in the Police Force. We don’t encourage any police officer to be involved in any illegal act. While it hurts us, we take action when we have to,” he stated.
He called out to the public to support the police in their search for illegal substances and other cases saying that “the police can only do so much.”
“If the public doesn’t assist us, how do we protect you and your children? Because these people do not care about you being their cousin, or your schoolmates, all they see is ‘how much money will I count?’” Jno Baptist said.
He said that the police force will persist in their plea to the public to keep working with the police.
“We need the public to continue working with the police, because we cannot protect you if you allow those who are seeking to destroy you, to have a free ride. When they destroy, they destroy everything in their path,” he said.
According to him, the police “cannot stop them and protect you, if you are not with us,” referring to stopping the criminals.
“The job we do is for you, the job we do is for the public. We want to be safe,” Jno Baptiste remarked.
What a waste. That money could have been invested. It’s time to legalize weed at home.
Why dont they invest in an incinerator where the fumes of cooked crack/cocaine mixed with weed wont be inhaled by residents in the area? I know you dont need to have CXC subjects to become a police but this is common sense. you dont want people to do drugs but insist on giving the community a healthy dose when you decide to burn it like common rubbish.
Nationals, support your Police! It is one of your obligations.
Even from afar I support you, the Dominican Police as I support the Police where I reside.
Those who are genuinely law-abiding and who treasure their safety and life will do likewise.
Whoever gives those who affirm this thumbs down, you are not patriotic nor law-abiding.
The police need the support of nationals. How else and how best can they fully protect nationals?
The police cannot be everywhere at the same time.. Therefore, your help is needed, those who most often know and see more than the Police, since they cannot always be present when these crimes are committed.
One of our national and civic duty is to assist the Police in fighting crimes. We are nationals/citizens wherever we reside. If we want to make our country safe and to live in peace, then assist the Police in fighting crimes.
God bless D/ca and nationals! God bless the Police and other authorities who do their utmost to keep D/ca safe.
The police need brains. Who told them this was a good idea to dispose of drugs like this in the open air? absurd!!! You expect me to support this nonsense? you sound like you are a police yourself, or loving a police probably, or your father is a police. Ehither way, they not getting my respect. not until they do better
Some of these posts sucks.. There is no need to ask from whom they come from. What does the burning of illegal substances have to do with Passport Sale?
Commonwealth of Dominica Police Force, do what you have to do until the LAW is changed otherwise (i.e legalization of Cannabis). But I personally sick and tired of your irresponsible behaviour. In addition to cannabis, destroying 105.78 Kilograms of COCAINE plus who knows how many TIRES (used as added fuel) is this manner is a health hazard to the residents of Kingshill and environs. This is not acceptable in 2017 and as such the suggestion is that you request the procurement of some ultra-high temperature incinerator. This behaviour is disgraceful to say the least and the CDPF should be ashamed to expose the citizens of Dominica to such health risk. Indeed FIRE burn you!!!!!!
they dont want people to use drugs but they mixing all the drugs together and burning together in the open air. like the smoke and fumes will not travel? and i am supposed to respect and support this ? no
Well, anybody who wanted a high could have got it for free by just passing by the boucan and inhaling deeply. I guess the parros didn’t know about that, lol. What a waste! Hahaha.
All these Police can talk about is how much drugs they burn and the street value. Did they hear about the Iranian fugitive that was allegedly hiding in Dominica and was finally arrested in Dominica after international manhunt? Did they not hear he was in possession of a regular Dominica Passport and a diplomatic passport? Did they not hear according to acting PM Reggie Austrie that there is an article circulating around the world, which indicates that the PM is currently under criminal investigation by the US re that same Iranian fugitive? To me that’s more important for the Police to talk about than drugs burning
Alas, my country policies is too keep people poor.
Looks like a pile of garbage, where is the drugs……….lol
And the people near that smoke got high from the smell. Lol
If Pappy reads that you all will be in trouble..Remember Pappy is A REAL RASTAMAN. R
Could bag it and sell it at Which Church and Afterfan. Would be good to make tea before bedtime. Also, could drink it if you have an asthma attack. Ignorance is like a deep dry well. No production.
We will help the police ….But allu hv to respond to the call quickly….
um..no we wont help the police. not for weed being smoked.
Rastaman and growers,
I am interested in purchasing herb by bulk. Email me at [email protected].
I need an unlimited amount of sage, rosemary, lavender and mint. I pay DEXIA market price. Don’t waste your time growing sensimilla, babylon will just destroy it. Grow legal, I will buy all you can grow.
High 5 for the police! Keep up the good work!
Marijuana and crack-cocaine are joined at the hip. They are both drugs, addictive, and harmful.
The same people who sell one sells the other right along with illegal guns.
Both are crime related. Men who are arrested on a binge of serial violent crimes are sometimes high on cannabis and sometimes on crack-cocaine.
I have seen how crack-cocaine alters the personality and can cause a pillar in the community to become
a sex offender and murderer.
Sincerely, Rev. Donald Hill.
just like wine and other pharlaceutical medications? how many people in Canada have overdosed from mixing alcohol and prescription meds vs people who have died from Marijuana? Idiot Reverand Hill
Sure people have died from mixing alcohol and prescription drugs. More than have died from smoking marijuana. In fact I do not know anybody who has died from marijuana.
I do know people who have gone from marijuana to a hard drug, and people who have become addicted to marijuana, and people who have developed bad health of one kind or another attributed to marijuana.
Now I am hearing of people driving high on marijuana, of car accidents, and injuries due to smoking marijuana.
Your point is
Sincerely, Rev. Donald Hill.
my point is that you have to be personally responsible for your actions. if i drank a bottle of rum and decided to drive a tank through traffic would you blame me or the rum i drank? then why blame marijuana is idiots who arent capable of driving while high decide they should. same for any prescription drug which makes u lethargic or drowsy. I drive high daily on dominica’s treacherous roads. while i smoke i drive, and i havent had any accidents. Now is that marijuana’s fault that i havent had any accidents or mine? so whats your point? The church encourages drinking wine which people can die from if they drink too much, but you hate marijuana because you think it will make me do harder drugs. I know people who hate marijuana but enjoy extasy and cocaine with their alcohol. I know people who have smoked ONLY marijuana their whole lives and never once wanted to try something else. I hate alcohol but i enjoy my smoke. im not violent, im very gainfully employed, im loved in my…
WELL WELL WELL… here we go again, we just cannot say well done when we need to the committed officers in the CDPF. Did you guys read his complete comment not covering up any corruption in the force, that’s a fact. This police officer is one of the good ones, a fine example. He spoke the truth but we posting all kinds of foolish unrelated questions and comments. How does he answer those questions? Monies confiscated in drug burst is seized by the Court after the matter for the Treasury, I did my research on that, its not the police money. Anyway we know there is a lot of work to be done but these guys risking their lives for us. Well said PRO.
not one of the smart ones. The Environmental Health Unit should be complained to about this practice. IT is obviously dumb.
YEAH RIGHT
Over $57 million of our passport money went down either in smoke or in dust by our government and yet not even an arrest or investigation by the police! Drugs trade affects those in drugs but the passport trade affects all of ud
I don’t agree. Drug trade affects all, of us, one way or the other. For a start I can not walk safe on the street with so many junkies around and I do not want to inhale second marijuana smoke etiher. The passport thing is not good too but they are two separate issues, It is not one or the other, they are both bad..
I agree with you that they both bad but, my point is, we are not putting America and the word at risk because of weed. However we sure putting the world at high risk with our regular and diplomatic passports we selling to crooks and criminals all over the world. That’s what the Police should be investigating aggressively.
Right now it is rumored that a wantef criminal was hiding in Dominica and close friends of our government knew he was here. The Police of Dominica should be out there investigating this allegation and deal with it professionally. That’s what I would feel good about.
Good job by the police and other people involved to destroy the drugs. Too many of our friends and family members are on drugs today. So I like to see the destruction of all drugs.
including pharmaceuticals which dont usually cure just treat symptoms. In the long run pharmaceuticals over work your organs and leave u gaul stones etc. apart from other side effects that they may cause.
sooooo u burn the weed and take the money?..hmmmmmm
where the money that was confiscated in those drug bust?
Of course!
We are talking here about two different things. Would you expect them to burn the money? It seems you are sore that the police did another successful drug bust.
Sincerely, Rev. Donald Hill.
In your PMs treasury you fool
But really do they ever report on how much $$ is confiscated? here they said now much was destroyed but where is the money? how much is in the treasury as someone said earliler.
A food cart would make killing today… there’ll be a lot of people walking around in that area wondering why they’ve got the munchies all of a sudden.
I understand that the drugs have to be destroyed, but my question however, is what happens to the money when seized during drugs busts? After the case falls through etc, who gets the money? The state? Is it burnt?
You is accountable for it?
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free up the herb
Studies have shown that the easier it is to obtain any substance the more it will be used.
I have said this before because I have also read the comment *free the weed* before.
To free the weed obviously means to decriminalize or legalize cannabis. So you want more people using
including young people and students
Do you know the physical ailments the weed causes
Are you aware of its criminal connection 
People who sell marijuana frequently also sell cocaine and heroine.
The same dealers who sell marijuana, cocaine, and heroine often sell illegal guns.
Are you aware of recent studies that show smoking marijuana causes damage to the part of the brain responsible for memory and learning
This has been seen in smoking students who have experienced a drop in grades and in the higher percentage of students among marijuana smokers who drop out of school.
Sincerely, Rev. Donald Hill
that’s why dominica is broke today
To no extent is anyone trying to saying that the entire police force is corrupt, for those running the force and hold up their jobs with integrity it’s all well and good, we seek to commend you for that but the reality is that their are officers who are most definitely corrupt and deeply involved in the drug world. Which in turn leads a percentage of the general public to conclude that not all of these drugs are being destroyed!
Could the neighbors sue for involuntarily inhaling that “illegal” smoke? Jus axing.
If a neighbor could prove the illegal smoke harmed him physically YES he could sue.
If any number of people could prove this smoke harmed then physically they could file a class action suit.
Families in North America are now suing big tobacco companies for the death of loved ones from cancer and other diseases caused by smoking cigarettes and second hand smoke in the workplace.
Sincerely, Rev. Donald Hill.
Sincerely, Rev. Donald Hill.
That practice needs to end its not good for neighboring residents and the officers them self to think after all these years no one has questioned this practice we in 2017 and police still disposing of illegal drugs like cave men
Police are dumb. Many still think marijuana is the devil that making people use it. Senior officer with beady eyes told me that once. wanted to curse him up for talking such nonsense for a grown man.
Are they destroying evidence related to the scandal with our passports along with the drugs?
This is just a questions……The timing of the burning calls for suspicion.
Waisted resources!! We should have shipped it to Colorado and earned some foreign exchange, but we continue to be dotish when it comes to Marijuana.
Colorado not buying that low grade weed we have here. They have more than enough high grade cbd and thc strains. What they should do is send us some of their seeds for us to grow for them.
I cannot get over some of these posts. Admin should delete some of this nonsense.
There is a study which drug use was measured in correlation to income/ money. it showed that poverty leads to drug use. less jobs, more stress, no production no forward movement leads to stress and depression and in turn, people turn to drugs and alcohol as a means of escape. what the study showed. maybe the solution is not to burn the drugs but real and actual progress. in all aspects of society.
Sounds like what the politicians are doing. All they see is money. Jno Baptist public will help when police treats all crimes with equal attention and not a wing of politics stringed by those incharge. Destruction is not only by drugs but also by poverty, lies, corruption, and abuse. Let’s start investigating all crimes or suspicions of crime and stop pussyfooting with those in high office that break the law. That’s the only way to bring back trust in the DPF.
Besides good job getting all that drugs of the streets and in the boddies of our youth.
How many people in the surrounding hamlets going around today with a dotish smile on their face ?
How much u all sell
How much you sole before u burn the rest ? How much ?
We should sell those drugs to pay off our debt with Tommy Lee!
Dominica owes Tommy Lee nothing. He was told not to come to Dominica. The island had enough problems without him.
Sincerely, Rev. Donald Hill.
yes it does. He was told he could not enter. Not that he couldnt come. Dont get the two mixed. Domnica violed the treaty of chaguaramas which allows the fre movement of CARICOM nations especially skilled workers and artisians to enter freely, especially if they are contracted to do specific work. This was all done, to only deny entry forcibly and treat him like he was a criminal without committing any crime in Dominica or have any travel restrictions in his own country. So yes Dominica owes him a lot, after we apologize to him first. Again Rev you are a fool. not a man of the cloth at all. you are subjective, judgmental, one sided, biased, ethnocentric at times, as well a prejudiced.