The Dominica Police Force has written to the United States to seek assistance with investigations into the discovery of skeletal remains at Elmshall heights.
Local police have not confirmed the identity of the remains, although the Barbados Nation Newspaper reported that police suspected the bones were that of 23-year-old Corey Poleon, of St Lucy, Barbados.
Poleon’s family was concerned, since the bank employee who went missing from his home country August last year, was believed to have been in Dominica.
According to Deputy Police Commissioner Cyril Carrette, while there have been speculations that it may be a Barbadian, the police are still carrying out investigations to confirm.
“The remains have not yet been identified,” Carrette stated.
He said that local police travelled to Barbados to conduct further investigations.
The Force has requested from the US a forensic anthropologist to identify the remains and the cause of death.
Police said they were led to the remains in March, and one man was assisting with investigations. However, no formal arrests had been made in connection with the incident.
– Staff reporter
PEOPLE!!!!!!!!! America has to help for a reason. Read between the lines. America helps because it benefits America. There is alot more to the story and Da police really need to let the public know the details. Anyway, stop bursting your brains people. You all know the killer, very well…
I find the police men and them to slack on there work so is time they bockle up.the killers and them running up and down in the plACE its time you all start locking them up.
I have a message for all you so called Dominicas living overseas, with all your comments on how backward or cave men we are in Dominica (BACK OFF) and let police do their job. some of you educated fools, who don’t even have your facts straight, why not go back home and contribute, some of you were given scholarships by our Government to go study abroad, with the expectation that you would be back to serve your country, but instead you never return. Be positive and think before writing nonsense, the world is reading.
We do not have the basic abc of justice in Dominica and neither do we intend to ever join the 21st century. This is becoming embarrasing. What happened to an inquest and a coroners court. Post mortem? Nothing?
Cave men!
An inquest and coroner’s court is the same. And there are coroner’s courts/inquest in Dominica.
In a case like this only skeletal remains were found and specialized expertise such as a forensic anthropologist is needed. Forensic anthropologists use techniques that can assist in the recovery of remains, assess age, sex, stature, ancestry, and analyze trauma and disease.
There are few people who identify themselves as forensic anthropologists, and in the United States and Canada, there are fewer than 100 Anthropologists certified as Diplomates of the American Board of Forensic Anthropology(DABFA).[1] Most Diplomates work in the academic field and consult on casework as it arises.
Dominica could never afford to have a full time forensic anthropologist since they are expensive and few in numbers. And in order for a thorough inquest to be carried out such expertise is needed.
So contrary to what you are saying, we are not cavemen in Dominica. Do a little research before you comment.
Kalinago – very well expressed!
I guess you just learned about cave men when you went abroad. You arrogant piece of s***.
lolz. i love that
Chavez should be able to conduct those forensic analysis.
Talking about the police and trials.. what happened to the Shakes enquiry and the boat, that was meant to be coming up in court again on 9 March? .. no mention of it ever again… leaves all kinds of ideas in my mind.. .. that is a very odd case!
well all am hearing is foolishness a young person has been killed brutally and see how long the police is taking to solve a crime that should and can be solve in the first 48 hours, what are our local learning when they are on training to sign and get search warrants.bullocks all that is things the police should be trained in before becoming a police,god there is no justice so criminals can just kill and get away with it, the police had the suspect got information him that could put him behind bars but you cant hold someone for more than 48hrs,so am guessing that they will let him go and then rearrest him but how long are they going to keep doing that.where is the law where is the justice in this country my eyes are open.
only ting dem d\a cops good for is harassting poor people for smoking a little weed in your back yard but wen com to real police work dem bowy nah ready
I have to agree
So I guessing America was only country in western hemisphere that could assist Dominica..hmm what about other Caricom countries. I thought the purpose of Caricom is to share human capital/intelligences so why seek an anthropologist/Ballistic/forensic from America…
My point exactly. What about the RSS? Aren’t they equipped with these technologies?
Any dental work that can be traced? It certainly takes a lot of time to get anything done here.
Not now I have been hearing about training our own people
in FORENSICS, BALLISTICS AND ALL THE WORKS.
Getting our officers trained remains a priority of the Deputy Commissioner I am certain. However, that is a long term strategy that does not meet the immediate requirements in today’s society. There are a few dominicans already holding undergraduate degrees in in fields such as psychology, criminal justice and biochemistry that should be considered for scholarships relevant to law enforcement. But for these people to serve in the police force things have to change. One of them will be to reorganize the salary structure to encompass “graduate” officer positions with clear cut promotion guideline. If not, all the graduates will be kept down by the old heads who always tend to believe that their years of service affords them preferential treatment for promotion over those who are more qualified. Even today, the few serving officers holding degrees are viewed as threats rather than assets and are constantly fighting to ensure that their allowance are not withheld by vindictive supervisors. Hopefully that will change some day.
I hope for God sake they have a log of the evidence (Chain of custody) from the time they found it to the time it is presented in court. Because any good lawyer could destroy them in court without it. It’s time of police become professional in how they carry out investigations. It’s these little loopholes that have our lawyers pockets so fat while we cry for justice.
Send me and study nuh
Why are we just sending for people to help us
You have a point there. Government sending so many students to study in Venezuela and as far away as China. God knows what they studying. They should be sending student to do specialty studies instead of just sending them to study medicine or law or agriculture alone.
Thats the steps we need to make. But this needs to be done sooner rather than later. Now where is the “person of interest”. Hope he is locked up
How about DNA analysis? Testing could already have been completed …or am I being naive in my thinking?
You are being naive. The test itself takes a long period of time and because of that there is a huge back log of cases in countries, such as the US, where these tests are done.
These two factors: length of test and and back logs, influence the length of time it takes to do the testing and analysis. This is not a simple test where you go to the lab and shake a few chemicals around in a petri dish. Since we don’t have that kind of facility in Dominica, it is going to take an even longer time to get results.
Duhhhh…that is the reason for requesting the help of the US…we don’t have the resources and equipment necessary for such testing in DA…