Mr. SPEAKER: The Honourable Member for St.
Lucy.

FEBRUARY, 21, 1995
Mr. D. St. E. KELLMAN: Mr. Speaker, as you are
aware, on the West Coast of this island we have a police
station which is commonly referred to now as the “hotel”
for policemen. That is the Holetown Police Station.

Mr. Speaker, after listening to the spc3ches by the
Honourable Members on the other side, I am convinced
that we have a situation where we should build some place
for these vehicles and exhibits to be stored. I do not think
that you can take a place like Holetown and continue to
store things in the condition they are stored in. We cannot

have a piece of real estate like that and have it in a couple
of years in a situation where it will affect the value of that
particular property.

Mr. D. St. E. KELLMAN: We know that there are
some Members who would not like to see the policemen in
such a nice police station, but we have no problem with
that. One must point out that having a police station in
Holetown is very important, as the Honourable Member for
St. James North will tell you, because the Holetown Police
Station is right on the beach.
Mr. SPEAKER: I am not going to allow the
Honourable Member to stray from the Bill.
Mr. D. St. E. KELLMAN: That is right We are
dealing with exhibits and some of these exhibits come in
through the sea and the Holetown Police Station is on the
beach, Sir. In this day when you have exhibits which can
come into Barbados by the sea, we must have a police
station to make sure that those exhibits are well stored and
also to make sure that those exhibits, when they come on
the west coast, that you have a police station in the right
location that you can get those items and that the
policemen can do their job and you do not have to call the
policemen but they will be right there on the beach to
make sure that your children and my children are protected.
I am saying, Mr. Speaker, that what we need to do,
instead of storing these things at all the police stations, that
we build something, a building, whatever you like to call
it, at a central location for all of these things. When you
think about it, Sir, there are probably about nine policemen
looking after records, these exhibits, and you will probably
need one or two and you will be able to relieve some of
the policemen who are looking after exhibits now to go and
man the streets.
I am saying, Mr. Speaker, I support the Bill,
providing that we are going to have the amendments as
mentioned by the Honourable Member for St. George
South. I also would hope that instead of having exhibits all
over Barbados that we will have a central location for them
and we would be able to get rid of the exhibits as soon as
possible, and if we need to draft additional legislation to
make sore that these exhibits do not necessarily have to
remain in the custody of the police for a long time, I am
calling on the Attorney General to ask his consultants, his
experts, whoever, to get the necessary legislation before
this Parliament so that we can have a situation where we
would not have to come back in here and talk about the
conditions at the police stations because of exhibits.

We also heard of situations where money is being
stored and is rotting or disappearing. We do not want to
have this situation. Money is important. If the money is
going into the Consolidated Fund or is being used for
something else, we have no problem with that, but we
cannot have money that we cannot account for.
Mr. Speaker, I will say to the Honourable Member for
St. Thomas that he should make the necessary amendment
and that we on this side are prepared to support anything
that can expedite efficiency in the legal system of
Barbados.
Thank you.