No action to reports of suspicious vehicle (LETTER)
Letter to the editor - Tuesday, July 17th, 2012 at 12:05 PM
Dear Editor:
I am writing to bvinews.com to see if they can do what the RVIPF is supposed to be checking on.
Since Friday last week, there has been a suspicious locked rental car parked behind Scotiabank, and after several calls to the police, the car is still blocking a parking space and the turnaround area for service vehicles.
How hard is this in the BVI to find out who the vehicle is registered to and have it either towed or the owner come and claim it?
(Name withheld because we know that the BVI is too melee)
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Hey BVI News can you put times on these blog postings ?
Folks, in all seriousness it should not take four days for a business enterprise to recover a disabled vehicle from any public area. This is just ridiculous. There is no urgency or priority. Too lackadaisical man.
Are there no cops walking or patrolling the beat? The cops role is to serve and protect the community. And anything unusual or suspicious observed while patrolling should peek their curiosity and should be investigated.
Community policing is being in tune with what is happening in the community. If a parked vehicle at certain hours is unusual it should alert the cop to investigate. Further, if there is an occupied vehicle in area at certain hours that the cops know are unusual, investigate it. This vehicle allegedly has been parked for several days.
This should have been on the RVIPF’s radar and once the community got alarmed it should have issued a press release to inform the community. It uses the press for personal promotion so use it to calm the community.
For such a silly situation, now all the people them paranoid because nature’s little secret is now run by criminals every law abiding citizens are scared. Hurry up misleaders bring some sense of protection back the BVI soon. We hurting from too much criminal activity in our little place.
Its Hertz rental and they know it break down there but hasn’t moved it yet.
So, how people know the Police weren’t handling the situation? Just because the car wasn’t moved right away? Suppose they found the owner and got a valid explanation as to why it was there? I ask all that because I saw the car this afternoon being pulled by another vehicle which tells me it had mechanical problems. So why bash the police? It’s possible that they already realized what was going on having investigated it. You want them issue a Press Release to all media saying “Rental car behind scotia moved!”?? You people are sick man!
the car is still blocking a parking space and the turnaround area for service vehicles.
vehicle FINALLY gone. After four days!
Walk away!! Its a bait car!! LOL
I guess de waitin for a smell to come outta da bak den cum an mek scene.
TOLA Blogger. Did you read the letter to the Editor before you put in your 2cent. The letter clearly said the POLICE were called atleast twice and notified of a suspicious vehicle parked at the same location since FRIDAY afternoon.You seems to be a BUSH LAWYER,for your information the vevicle is on the road behind SCOTIA BANK.
Its because of dumb naive ppl like some of you who responded to this article, we have so many unsolved robberies in the BVI. Good job to who ever wrote this. The vehicle is blocking traffic at that! come on ppl. Open your eyes and stop being naive….
This is good. We should all bring light to unusual sightings in the community.
If the letter writer is not the owner of the “private property” where the vehicle is parked, then hopefully he/she has contacted the owner of the property to see if he/she knows about the vehicle and why it is there.
He/she can check with the other businesses back there to see if anyone knows anything about it. Next stop – the DMV.
No need to wait for the police to take action. We can all be a C.O.P.
Call Rhymer at DMV and give them the plate number – they will tell who registered to
One time somebody hit me, I was able to get the license plate number, make, model and colour of vehicle everything and TO DATE… no progress has been made.
To date they are unable to identify the owner of the vehicle; the incident happened over 4 years ago. Waste of time I tell you!
I’m quite certain that the vehicle probably just has some kind of mechanical problem. Tortola people are so lame.
You are quite certain????? Um really now! I thing the better choice of words would have been “There is a great possibility”. Unless you were there or the driver told you the vehicle has an issue, your statement is not valid. Replace the “Yall” in your name with “I”………. I AM QUITE CERTAIN that it would have more truth to it that way.
If the police aren’t doing their job why not just call the rental car company who owns the vehicle and inform them it will be towed at their expense if it is not removed. Simple as that. The car must have a sticker on it for the rental company.
there is no sticker on the vehicle
The vehicle is on private property and this makes a difference. The police cannot go running on prvate property like that unless invited by the land owner or if a crime is being committed.I know this sounds strange but it is the law. Th question is why the business owner out of security concerns did not inform the police if the vehicle is indeed a problem.Who knows it may be someone connected to the business who left the vehicle there.
where is super cop when we need him, this vehicle is in a strategic spot for a get away, with festival in the air who knows.
this vehicle should be removed, impounded and investigated its been there from Friday.
Well Sa you think this is a dumb article,because you don’t check your sorounding.And probly you are not bother what is going on in our little country.It may seems as nothing to you, but you never know.You are a sleep and need to wakeup and be more alert.This is a concern if you know the meaning.
If it is a rental, then the rental company should move it.
If it is TRULY a rental. Look aat the model of car and how new it is compared to the license plate.
The Rental plates have nothing to do with how new the car looks. We reuse plate all the time. The police department should be able to have a link with DMV to search a record on any plate and determine who it belongs to. Right about now the police are doing things backward.
I saw the same vehicle there all weekend, it has’nt move now that I read this article.If someone pass this information to the Police and they did nothing this is not good enough.What are we paying them for, some of them just collecting a salery for nothing.I bet if Supper Cop,Food or the other cop who ride the Black Motor Bike got this info they would have investigate.There are very few officers who are loyal to the RVIPF and to the Virgin Islands.The rest just wanted a job and to collectthe US dollor.
The POLICE is very slack and useless most times,this could lead to some sort of on going criminal activity.Who knows, but the Useless officers who took the information probly never pass it on to someone to investigate.This is why no one pass information to the POLICE.It may seems simple, but that’s not the point. MORRIS and JAMES you need to pull up the officers responsible in this matter.
for true. No concern of the popo. They couldn’t give a dam cos it ain’t there car
This is so dumb! Who ever wrote this article need to get a life.
Why is it dumb? You apparently are “dumb”. Thanks to the person who reported this. Better to be safe than sorry. Someone out there could be up to no good. I say have it removed and checked asap!
maybe at night they digging a tunnel to the bank, and every morning they park it over the same spot – hahaha
Hypocrite, you make me burst out with laughter!!!
whhhhaaaaa – looks like it parked ready for get-a-way from something
lol lol silly ppl
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