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St. Maarten arrests ex–police chief
Real estate news By Cay Compass
Wednesday 6th February, 2008
St. Maarten’s former police chief was arrested Tuesday on charges he forged immigration documents, just days after the veteran official was removed from his post, authorities said. Derrick Holiday, who had been chief of the Police Force of the Windward Islands since 2000, was arrested at home and taken into custody for questioning, said Chief Prosecutor Taco Stein.
Holiday is accused of forging several documents over a period of time, Stein said, declining further comment. Authorities are searching his home and office in the Dutch Caribbean territory.
St. Maarten’s justice minister announced on Feb. 1 that Holiday had been reassigned for two years to help create a Ministry of Justice for the territory as it makes the transition into an autonomous country as part of the break–up of the Netherlands Antilles. Holiday oversaw 200 police and immigration officers in St. Maarten, St. Eustatius and Saba. He was the supervisor of former Police Commissioner Marcel Loor, who was sentenced to four years in prison last year for taking bribes to provide fake entry documents to at least 10 foreign workers between 2004 and 2007.
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