Are they the only police on the island?
For an island with such a prolific murder rate they seem a bit understaffed!
shareI assume there's a night shift we never see. This lot are tucking into the rum every evening.
shareI strongly doubt it. Normally the station is empty when they arrive. They seem to handle all of the tasks (crime scene work, interviewing suspects, surveillance, arrests, etc.) between the 4 of them. Fortunately for them the criminals are kind enough to give them only one case to handle at a time...
Crime at night must be banned on the island.
As you say, there appear to be no crimes other than the weekly murder. Nobody seems to be working on any other case.
Perhaps they're an elite Homicide Squad because there's so many murders and there's another police station somewhere we never see.
And in the latest episode, as no doubt in other ones, all four dashed out together when they got the report of the latest murder - who answers the phone in their absence? The Commissioner obviously has an office elsewhere, as no doubt do other sections of the police force.
shareI think people are giving the island too much credit. It's not a big island, and 10 or so murders a years isn't a huge amount, especially as it seems to be tourists a lot of the time. If it was set on Jamaica it would be an entirely different story, and a lot less fun too watch! Lol!
shareIt's not so much the murder rate (which by the way is still pretty high for a small island) but the fact that all the police work is being done by the same 4 people. Nobody else to collect evidence. Nobody else to carry out surveillance. Nobody else to take calls when they're all at the bar or rounding everyone up at the end (which happens a lot). Nobody else to effect arrests. They're more like a homicide unit than an actual police department.
This is clearly a light-hearted show that shouldn't be taken too seriously (and I generally don't) but it's the one thing that continually bugs me.
There is periodic mention of the crime lab and medical examiner being on another island. I presume the Commissioner is the same, and in a headquarters building on a bigger island. This is some very small outpost on a small island in a nation, protectorate or administrative district spread among several, apparently.
Small town departments in the US often work like this, and are 9-5 affairs BUT there is some backup like the Sheriff answers the calls the rest of the time.
It wouldn't have killed them to either make that clearer (and have calls come from HQ or some dispatch you never see), to have an office staff who answers the phones but is not an officer, or even just a couple more people in the background who are clearly the traffic police or haul drunks in and out of the holding cells. But, it's a comedy more than anything, so they didn't seem to bother. Doesn't kill me, but it's a bit annoying.
I like that the writers avoid too much gritty realism.
It's ballsy.
It's a fantasy island so why get bogged down in police procedure.
Fidel was after the market thief who they thought was a women but was a man.
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