Investigation Into Willful Damage of City of Hamilton Buildings

Thu, 2015-02-26

Superintendent Darrin Simons - The Bermuda Police Service has received five separate reports of willful damage in the City of Hamilton. It appears that an individual or individuals spray painted buildings in the city overnight. As of 11am the affected locations are:

Rear of Cabinet Building, Reid Street side

Global House on Church Street

‘Chatterbox’ cafe on Reid Street

Defontes Building on Reid Street

129 Front Street

From time to time incidents of this nature occur where individuals use graffiti to write hateful messages. On this occasion, given the global context, the impact of the message may raise anxiety within the community.

The Bermuda Police Service would like to reassure the public that we take this matter seriously and an investigation has commenced.

We are a close knit community and to date neither the information from the public nor or own intelligence systems have raised any particular concerns in this regard.

We are appealing to the community to play their part by simply passing on any information that may assist us in identifying the person or persons responsible for these acts of vandalism. Any information you have, no matter how insignificant, should be passed on to Inspector Mark Clarke of the Criminal Investigation Unit on 247-1744.