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Acting Police Commissioner Errol Alexander has sent a stern warn­ing to crim­i­nals after a num­ber of attacks on the police in recent times.

Speaking on Wednesday’s “Call The Police” pro­gramme on state-owned Radio Saint Lucia, Alexander said: “We had our meet­ing last week with the Police High Command and we are on high alert in rela­tion to defend­ing ourselves.

“So I am send­ing a mes­sage out there that if the crim­i­nals think that we are in Jamaica, we are not in Jamaica, we are in Saint Lucia, and we will take what­ev­er mea­sures nec­es­sary to pro­tect the safe­ty of our police officers.”

Alexander was com­ment­ing on reports that criminal/​s opened fire on the Richfond Police Station in Dennery over two weeks ago. No one was injured in the ear­ly-morn­ing attack.

The top cop also dis­closed that mis­siles were report­ed­ly thrown at police offi­cers on patrol on Chaussee Road in Castries.

But Alexander said the police is not back­ing down and will use what­ev­er is nec­es­sary to defend themselves.

“I want to inform crim­i­nals that we are not flat on our backs and we have a right to defend our­selves and we have a right to match force with force, and if they believe they have more force than us, well fine,” Alexander said

The com­mis­sion­er also dis­closed that sev­er­al young men con­front­ed a police con­sta­ble on the last day of Carnival, how­ev­er the offi­cer “froze”.

“That is why some­thing did not hap­pen. But I am say­ing if you are so bold in doing so we will be bold in tak­ing the rel­e­vant action that we have to take. We have to pro­tect our­selves,” he said.

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