Acting Commissioner of Police Jacqueline Vanterpool disclosed this information during a press conference held on Wednesday, January 15.
“As I speak, we have 12 officers out on interdiction presently,” Vanterpool said. “Some have been arrested and charged and are before the court, awaiting the outcome of their trials.”
Vanterpool noted that the ranks of these officers predominantly include sergeants and constables.
“They were charged with aggravated bodily harm, assault, theft, and other various offences, but the main one was breach of trust,” Vanterpool stated.
One recent case involved Police Constable Earlando Baynes, who was charged with breach of trust by a police officer. According to the RVIPF, Baynes’ actions compromised a planned operation in November 2024, raising significant concerns about law enforcement integrity and operational security.
Detective Chief Inspector Kenrick Davis of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) highlighted the internal accountability measures that led to these investigations.
“The vast majority of investigations that result in police officers being arrested and charged emerged from within the RVIPF,” Davis said. “It’s other police officers who looked at their own colleagues and said they will not tolerate that behavior.”
Davis commended the broader force for their commitment to maintaining integrity within their ranks.
“While we should all be concerned about something going awry in the police force, we should also commend the rest of the force for identifying the issues and taking action,” he added.
These developments come amid the recent passage of the Police Amendment Act 2024 in the House of Assembly, which aims to bolster law enforcement accountability and capabilities.
If y’all not going win the cases just discharged those fools from wasting money.
Unless that will bring a law suit?
If the BVI was independent these arrest would never happen, natalio Wheatley would have been a prime minister with all the powers to sweep this under the rug while the governor would be come governor general or just a symbolic creature to remind us that Britain is our master, even the judiciary can be swayed by a prime minister as you see going on in the independent territories, if the court sentence someone to jail the prime ministers just instruct the governor general to write a pardon, and the royal family loves when you use their name for refuge so they can maintain the elongation of colonialism.
Assault? Theft?? A dozen of police officers, some of whom are sargents??? Wow….
This is showing to me that there is something wrong with your recruitment process. This is what this is. You are rooting out people who should not have been officers in the first place.
I know honest people who applied to be police officers and they were never given a chance. I guess I can see now, why they didn’t want honest people among them LOL
Young Black nonBVIslander males
Imported for the purportedly purpose of relieving and arresting the alarmingly escalated but predictable all crime resulting as a result of the importation of surplus amounts of immigrants from the bedrock crime locations in the
Northern Hemisphere.In addition to deliberate unmanned/ inadequately protected borders of entry
Arrested and charged.
Nary a name nor photo.
The aiding and abetting continues.