CompPol Urges U.D.P. Factions to Settle Headquarters Dispute in Court

The struggle for control of the U.D.P. headquarters stretched on for most of the day, with police maintaining a vigilant watch for any potential unrest. Amid the chaotic takeover, Tracy Panton and her supporters insisted they had full legal grounds to occupy the building, citing trustee Phillipa Bailey’s approval. However, Commissioner of Police Chester Williams suggested that the situation might not be so straightforward. We asked Williams which legal processes might be overlooked, and here’s what he had to say.

 

Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police

“I look at the situation from a legal standpoint. If you have a landlord and the landlord wishes to displace his tenant,  the landlord cannot just bring a new tenant to the building and say to the current tenant, you need to leave. There is a legal process that you must follow.  And the legal process cannot be circumvented by some other process. And it is sad to see that we have instances where people who are trained attorneys and should know better, um, that certain documents do not carry the force of law.  And if it is that Philippa Bailey was the trustee of the  property  and she was holding on trust for the UDP, The question then lies as to who is a UDP? Shyne is a UDP,  Panton is a UDP.  And so there’s a dispute there.  In order to resolve that dispute,  the police  must not be the arbitrator of that issue.  That is an issue that ought to be resolved in a court of law. And so if the Panton fraction believe that They have all rights to the building. Then the proper thing for them to have done  as to take the matter before the court, perhaps request Phillip Bailey, who is a trustee  to issue  shine  with a notice to quit perhaps a month  if after the one month period expires, he do not quit. And notice of quit simply means notice to leave. That’s a legal term. He did not leave within that time. Then they will then take that to the court and apply for an eviction order. If the court sees it fit  after having heard all the evidence and then the court issue that eviction order,  then the police can then act with them to forcefully evict  him from the building.”