Crime Chief Leslie James says that while allegations of a policewoman being involved with a repeat criminal offender are of concern to him, one cannot be hasty in one’s conclusions but rather should await the outcome of an investigation.
James yesterday responded to reports that the girlfriend who reported that robbery under armed accused Adrian Bishop had assaulted her, was a policewoman. It was shortly after the report was made that Bishop was shot dead by police.
The policewoman is attached to a city police station and the dead man’s relatives have since told this newspaper that the two shared an intimate relationship.
It was Bishop’s mother Adene who first questioned the relationship the two shared during an interview with this newspaper on Sunday. “And I don’t see how a policewoman could be involved with a thief man; why she don’t have any shame?” she had said.
Asked about the reports that the two shared a relationship, James told Stabroek News that while such allegations are of concern to him, at the same time “we can’t jump and touch the roof…We have to investigate first…we have to get confirmation.”
He said that he was unsure if this aspect of the matter is being addressed by the Police’s Office of Professional
