and garden rake when he retired on Friday after 31 years of service.

He joined the Bermuda Police in 1965 from the Manchester City Police in the United Kingdom and after five years in the uniform branch he joined the western criminal investigations department as a detective constable until 1971.

Chief Inspector Barber was promoted to Sergeant after he was switched to central CID and he served on the team that was selected to investigate the murders of Police Commissioner George Duckett in September 1972 and Governor Sir Richard Sharples and his Aide-de-camp Capt. Hugh Sayers in 1973.

In 1974 he was appointed as the officer in charge of Western CID and three years later he went back to central CID.

By 1986 he was appointed Supreme Court officer and two years later he returned to Western CID as a Chief Inspector.

In his most recent appointment he worked on career development in the Administration Office at Police Headquarters.