San Ignacio Policeman Sexually Assaults Colleague at Work

A police officer of San Ignacio has been arrested and charged for sexually assaulting a female colleague inside the San Ignacio Police Station.  The incident which was captured on surveillance camera happened on Valentine’s Day, February fourteenth.  A forty-year-old woman who was on duty at the precinct reported that Durman Dawson, an officer whom she has known for the past nine years, groped her.  When she reacted by smacking him, while attempting to free herself, Dawson then physically assaulted her.  It’s a repulsive video, one that Commissioner of Police Chester Williams has also reacted to.

 

Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police

“I found that video to be extremely disgusting and troubling and right away, upon seeing it, I gave directives that the police corporal be arrested and charged and interdicted from duty.  And my exact words were this, I am going to tell you, I’m just going to remove the profanities, that we are in an organization where men believe that this is a man’s job.  We have gone beyond that now, this is no longer a man’s job, it is a job for both men and women and as male or as men in this organization, we must respect our women counterparts.  We cannot be in an environment where the women believe that they have no say or that they have no rights and that the male can just trample over them.  So  long as I sit as Commissioner of Police, I am not going to allow or entertain any such behavior on the part of any male police officers and it was on that premise that I instructed what needs to be done.  Again, it shows that the cameras inside the station are extremely helpful to us because like you have there with you the footage from the police station.  It shows exactly what transpired and we were able to act decisively, based on that.”