Commissioner apologises for graphic RVIPF video in circulation
Police Commissioner Mark Collins has offered a public apology for video in circulation that features himself, a number of his officers in the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF), and graphic footage of violence in the BVI.
The near-six-minute-long video starts by showing off the breathtaking beauties of the territory but then takes an ominous and menacing turn.
The commissioner is then seen in an interview saying: “It does constantly surprise me because you go from being in absolute paradise to being in muck and bullets.”
Immediately following that statement, scenes containing graphic CCTV footage of gunmen firing high-powered weapons at an occupied vehicle is featured.
But in a written public statement issued late Monday afternoon, Commissioner Collins said the video in question was “incomplete” and was not meant for the public.
He further said the video was “intended to be a tool for recruiting officers from the Caribbean and the UK, and aimed at capturing the benefits and challenges of policing in the BVI”.
“While permission was sought in advance from the relevant authorities specifically for the intended purpose, this raw footage in circulation lacked an introduction and a conclusion and was never intended for public consumption,” the commissioner stated.
“I received the video in its incomplete form and circulated it to a small group of officers within the Force to receive feedback to help with its completion. None of the violence, drug trans-shipments or the seizures in this video would ever be appropriate to be viewed by the public,” the top cop added.
He continued: “I am saddened by the actions taken to bring me and the Force into disgrace. I am even more disheartened that the people of this territory have to endure additional distress and trauma in this already very difficult time. I offer apologies on my behalf and that of the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force.”
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The damage is DONE as intended! Keep ypur bulls**t apology!!
The damage was done by the Belonger drug importers, Belonger murderers, Belonger crooked politicians, Belonger rapists, Belonger criminals. Don’t blame someone for advertising it. Blame the people who brought this crime upon you. But… go ahead and blame the whites. It’s much easier!!
Yet, it was the expat police officers arrested for the greatest drug bust in the history of the VI! Idiot!
There is so much jealousy and hatred eminating out of you, I doubt you sleep at night.
If the Belonger politicians are crooked they learnt from the best, the UK. Look at their lying, crooked Prime Minister for one. ‘Sorry’ seems to fix everything when you’re ‘white’ because only white can be right. That is why you are unconcerned about what the Commissioner has done and more concerned with making the focus about race.
The public replay of that violent, horrific murder in Fish Bay it seems is OK in your eyes but who cares about how that triggers the victims wife and family to see. All of this in the name of what, a TV show with our new Commissioner as the star? You seem to care so much for your superiority but you’ve surely benefitted from the privileges the Belongers of this Country gave you, which somehow seem to have made you feel entitled by the post you have made.
And don’t come with any blah about Andrew Fahie, what he did, he did but it does not give anyone and everyone permission to continue to defame the Country en masse at every opportunity. Nothing gives the Commissioner the right to make this video. His job is to protect and serve us, not exploit us for his own notoriety.
Police Commissioner Mark Collins no excuses! Your poor judgment is costing our the tourism economy. Governor Rankin please fire this man before he does further damage. Get someone with better judgment who we can have confidence in.
Commissioner Rollins did not release nor did he publish the video or gave permission
The video was not yet completed and edited.
Ms Rosan illegally obtained the confidential and unedited video,the property of the VIPD and with no permission nor authorizations “put it out there “
Video should never have been made in the first place
The UK agenda continues. He says its a marketing tool so why dont he market that many officers have side jobs as paid henchmen for the drug dealers and others make up salary by stealing drugs and money.
Well it is what it is. When the leader is going to be incarcerated in a US Federal Prison for the foreseeable future and drugs, miser and crime rampant what do you expect. It’s just another Black run area. NY, Chicago, Detroit, LA all the same. Where the Black man lives crime flourishes.
So where does the serial killers reside, with your kind? You know, the ones who eat their victims after holding them captive in their basement for years.
So why are you living here? Are you part of the problem or part of the solution??!! The disrespect from people like you!!Unbelievable
These are the l**ches (r**ist and others) who care nothing about the country and it’s people and need to go find their paradise somewhere else. It’s so offensive and perplexing that the place is so terrible and yet they won’t leave.
Go back to your white run area where they are mostly responsible for shooting up dozens of innocent children, because they can’t handle life.
Also check the ones at the top of the drug trade that are killing off blacks and their own kind. They know how to build their empires in NY, Chicago, Detroit and LA. This is why I blame blacks for turning into criminals like them and for following the career of the addictive white powder.
I aware that the footage shown was incomplete and not meant for the public eye but my question is how does this effect the potential officers being recruited? Is this the narrative that’s being portrayed and also how many of these cops are coming into the BVI with a hyperbolic preconceived notion that the BVI is the wild-wild West?
That’s the thing , it is the wild wild west, they are running rampant and even driving up the road is a lottery if your going to make it and not run into a moron overtaking dangerously
i love how everyone is ignoring the line ” for a small internal group to look at ” which means a officer inside the police force released this, i hope he hunts them down and dismisses them instantly for this , but no you will all shout it was racist since that is all you have
The video is mostly factual. Crime (especially drug related shootings and trading) is indeed on an unpresidented level here in these Virgin Islands. However, maybe the producers of the video can highlight more of the fact, that the BVI is still one of the safest place to live.
It was mentioned in the video that the BVI is a paradise…however they are crimes….which is very true. That shooting that was captured in the video did happen right here, plus quite a few others.
LIsten, not the thing wrong with the video. The police force is an entity that deals with crime and they are broadcasting what they are dealing with from their angle.
We in the VI like to hide our dirty laundry under the carpet too much instead of fixing the issues at hand. Even when the laundry build up like a hill under the carpet, we want to act like there’s nothing there. Y’all need to stop it, and face the ugly truth.
Is the BVI living in a 1950’s civil rights time warp bubble? What’s the problem? They make it seem like we have people shooting up our streets each week in drug wars and that our only hope is the great white UK senior police officials who the other black officers hope to be like one day! What a whitewash racist propaganda video!!!
Well said!!!
Safe ? A man was killed in broad daylight in the middle of town less then a week ago , i would hardly call that “safe”
“I received the video in its incomplete form and circulated it to a small group of officers within the Force to receive feedback to help with its completion.
Then you need to examine the horns.
Benny wife need to sue
Mehn, that cctv footage has been all over social media since 5 minutes after the shootin.
The point is, none of this footage is made up, no lies. If it is uncomfortable for people to see, then those people need to do something about crime in their communities.
MS Horse face has nothing
She was the one who distributed it to the World,unauthorized after obtaining it illegally.
It is a confidential and unedited video,property of the VIPD.
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how come them aint show the drug bust up balsum ghut involving the police?
I watch the video in circulation several times to make sure that I understand it.we need several more of these videos so the innocent people in this territory and have a change of heart and give up their friends and family. from 1989 to present we have over 65 unsolved murders in this small island and we the people knows some if not all of the killers. we do .this video is Nothing compared to what is happening in the real bvi.wake up people. the commissioner should not apologize for that video. more videos like this need to be put out there and maybe just maybe the families of the dead one might have some closure because someone somewhere might decide to remember something and say something. our former premier said he have friends who traffic drugs and guns and this video shows a little of what taking place and we have a problem with that .we are a bunch of sick people because this country is exactly what the video depict and much more.we are really hypocrites. you have over 65 unsolved murders in 30 yrs and you people upset about a video which shows the factual??I believe in my heart that another major hurricane would me heading our way in short order.we are a wicked set of people.
White racism again
I checked the UK recruiting strategy for police officers . The theme was based around officers protecting vulnerable members of the community ..: serving and protecting
You are a fraud and this is a deliberate act to cripple the tourist industry and bring the BVI in economic ruin to depend on handout from the UK
The picture has already been painted …play the blame game . It was leaked out
Violence would endanger… psychologically that would keep Caribbean people away … So yes it would appeal to people in the Uk to have a UK dominated police force in the VI
I haven’t seen the video as yet. And I do understand that the force may need to do something for recruitment.
But for the love of God, why go about doing something like this now, when you done know the people on edge
And truly. the COP made a comment about the shooting in fish bay saying that no where in the world he has seen a shooting like that. IT SEEM THE COP LACKING INTERNET ACCESS. Because in UK and USA and many other places I have seen worst shooting than that.
WHAT’S A CRYING SHAME. For a small place they the police force have so many unsolved crime to date. An area where the smallest state is USA Rhode Island can fit the whole BVI in it 4 times over.
So now I truly believe that the UK have some kind of plans to bring this place down.
I’m still speechless, to the thought of a video and it’s contexts. Like really, why show individuals such. Is the BVI the only drugs and killer territory in the world.
The BVI is the place that creates the drugs, it’s just a passing point like so many other places in the world.
What should of been highlighted or talked about; is that due to location of the BVI and it being the only Caribbean island that is not a USA territory to deal with the US dollar have attracted a high volume of drug trafficking and drug related murders.
BECAUSE IF NOT ALL I WOULD SAY 95% of these crimes committed are drug related murders so COP you f**ked up big time. And I am glad one of your inner circle leaked your intentions
In the cold light of day, people are upset about the videos not because they were broadcast, but, because what they reflected was actually the truth, not a single commentator has claimed it’s untrue. Like the gun ownership issue throughout the US, the problem is systemic within the territory and has been for generations. Sadly the cure may be as serious as the decease.
This in my opinion is cold and calculating . What nonsense !! Check out the UK recruiting strategy … they use images of the police helping vulnerable people and keeping members of the community safe .
This is poor psychology. This is scaring off people from joining the force .except he only wants UK officers to control the territory. Then it is bad for tourism . This will hurt the economy then we would be more on our knees to the ruling of the UK .
This is the person you have making decisions for our security Governor ?
He needs to go . An apology is not enough the deed is already done to tarnish the image of the BVI true or not this is not the way to go
But the video is all true! No doubt it is difficult to recruit police to the BVI, where people not from here think it is sleepy – a retirement gig. I am sympathetic to the Commissioner using innovative ideas to get the best police. Heaven knows we need it.
Those cops don’t even want to come when you call them for a fight. They hide out until it is done, then show up. So they going be happy to come to the BVI to fight the type of crime portrayed in that video. UTTER GARBAGE!!!
I do not condone criminal behavior, but sadly the video served its original and intended purpose.
You are untruthful Sir. At the end of the video say ITV. If you cannot be trusted to tell the truth on simple matters how could you be trusted with the lives of our people.
Other police departments recruit by advertising their great salaries and benefit package but somehow this genius think that by showing a video of guys with high powered weapons is a great reason why someone will leave their country to be an officer in the BVI. The irony is he chose the BVI because of all the perks that he gets with the job.
A forthright and honest reveal of a VI complete with a multinational police force. A country farce that has been tailor made to conveniently suit the behind the scene behaviours of those we selected and elected.
Bring it on… the real BVI, typical of a Caribbean resplendent in natural beauty and populated by descendants of slaves whose efforts to self destruct and degrade is in full view,
These BVI which not too long ago was an exception, uncomfortable in its uniqueness,imported and continues to import and install the human architects of Black is Ugliness. Original BVIslanders have been displaced and few in numbers…Result: BVI of sameness and shame with costly never-ending efforts to curtail the cannibalistic cultural behaviours of the newly imported and installed inhabitants and the prolific by products of their gene pool.
Those cops don’t even want to come when you call them for a fight. They hide out until it is done, then show up. So they going be happy to come to the BVI to fight the type of crime portrayed in that video. UTTER GARBAGE!!!
I do not condone criminal behavior, but sadly the video served its original and intended purpose.
A forthright and honest reveal of a VI complete with a multinational police force. A country farce that has been tailor made to conveniently suit the behind the scene behaviours of those we selected and elected.
Bring it on… the real BVI, typical of a Caribbean resplendent in natural beauty and populated by descendants of slaves whose efforts to self destruct and degrade is in full view,
These BVI which not too long ago was an exception, uncomfortable in its uniqueness,imported and continues to import and install the human architects of Black is Ugliness. Original BVIslanders have been displaced and few in numbers…Result: BVI of sameness and shame with costly never-ending efforts to curtail the cannibalistic cultural behaviours of the newly imported and installed inhabitants and the prolific by products of their gene pool.
The UK can no longer be proud of their territory or have respect of its inhabitants and as a 3rd generational BVislander, I too am ashamed.
The World knew what we were..It is only fair that the World be knowledgeable about what we have done to ourself with no assist from any old World colonizer. Independence, the final self anhialation in keeping with our neighbors is wh at we deserve.
Not one word in it nor one visual was a lie. People should be apologizing for not supporting the police more and for not advocating for greater resources for them. Always so damn loud about froth and so quiet about the real issues.
It’s a video. Actions have been done far worse.