And so what are the police doing about it? Or, maybe we should say, what can they do? Shasta Wade today made a statement to the police, but making a threat of rape is not an offence.
Today at his office in Belmopan, Police Commissioner Chester Williams told us how he feels about the post, and the limits of his powers to address it:
Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police
"I have read the post and as a man and the content has nothing to do with me, but reading it brings goosebumps over my skin. The graphic description, the nuisance in it, it's outrageous to say the least. I could just imagine how Mr. Wade wife feels when she read it and how Mr. Wade may feel as well when he read that post."
"I have since dialogue with Mr. Wade and he and his wife have made a compliant to the police and we are seeing what can be done. I discussed the matter with the DPP yesterday and we are both doing our legal research to see if there is anything is law that we can do. Like you rightfully pointed out, the threat to life is an offence, the threat to damage property is an offence, but as it relates to threat to rape - there is not anything clear in law that we can readily use to prosecute, but we are hoping that by the end of the day today if we find something that we can go on then we are surely going to move forward in terms of dealing with the individual. But at the very least I can advise Mr. Wade and his wife is that they can make a complaint to the public service commission, because under the public service regulation it do makes provision as it relates to the conduct of public officers and the individual who is the author of the post is a public officer and so he must conduct himself in a manner that is consistent with the public service regulation code of conducts and that post is a clear violation of what is expected of public officers."
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