improperly draft charges against accused people.

And he dismissed a threatening words charge against a 15-year-old Sandys boy, saying: "There needs to be some serious training in that Police Service.'' He told the boy and his mother: "You can go! He's entitled to the particulars of what they say he did.

"The particulars must say who he threatened to slap,'' he added. "That's trite law. Simple canons of construction.'' Turning to the boy, he said: "I warned you about coming back here. Maybe we have been a bit too soft on you too long. Tidy up!'' Moments earlier, Mr. Greaves, with a dramatic flourish of the hands, read the charge which included the words the teen is alleged to have said.

"When constables draw up charges do they give them to a supervisor or sergeant to read over?'' he asked P.c. Eunice Lambert -- who did not write up the charge sheet.

"From the time I came to Bermuda I've felt the charge sheets are not right,'' he added. "Who did he say it to? To himself, the wall, the tree? Charge dismissed for incompleteness.

"You must tell them up front what it is you say they did. Common sense would say that you have to say they did it to somebody.'' Mr. Greaves has also long complained that many charge sheets or "informations'' are in the name of lower ranked Police Officers rather than the Police Commissioner, in whose name they operate.

He said: "He's the one that's responsible. He's the one that everything they do has to happen through him, not a sergeant. A good one I'm sure but a sergeant nonetheless.''