Governor: Nationality of next Police Commissioner doesn’t matter
Governor Daniel Pruce has emphasised that the nationality of the next Commissioner of Police for the BVI is inconsequential.
Pruce said his primary concern is appointing a candidate with the requisite skills and experience to address the territory’s evolving criminal landscape.
In a recent interview on JTV, Governor Pruce addressed the ongoing recruitment process for a new police commissioner. He noted that the initial search, launched in May, was halted to reassess the desired qualifications for the role. This decision followed insights from the first volume of a law enforcement review, highlighting areas within the police force requiring significant leadership and transformation.
Addressing concerns about the origin of potential candidates, Governor Pruce clarified, “For me, this has nothing to do with the origin of the successful candidate. What I want to ensure is that we have a candidate that meets our person specification. And frankly, it makes no difference to me where they come from.”
Meanwhile, the Governor indicated that his decision to halt the recruitment process aligns with his commitment to transparency and fairness. He expressed that continuing with the initial process, knowing the specifications had changed, would have been unfair to applicants. He acknowledged the disappointment this may have caused but maintained that redefining the role’s requirements was the correct approach.
We need great leadership
He elaborated on the territory’s evolving challenges, including youth criminality, gun crime, burglaries, and maritime issues. The governor underscored the need for leadership capable of navigating these complexities and driving organisational transformation within the police force.
“We launched the process to recruit the new police commissioner back in May”, the Governor stated. “After that process was launched, we took delivery of the first volume of the law enforcement review. That already illustrated several areas within the police, as well as the other law enforcement agencies, that needed attention, and in particular, needed great leadership.”
Pruce said he anticipates the second volume of the review early next year, expecting it to contain “far-reaching recommendations for the law enforcement community, again, including the police.” Given these forthcoming recommendations, Governor Pruce felt it prudent to pause the recruitment to redefine the candidate profile, ensuring the new commissioner can implement the necessary transformational changes.
Governor Pruce said he aims to restart the recruitment early in the new year, with hopes of appointing the new commissioner by late summer or early autumn. He emphasised the importance of not wasting time, recognising the critical work the police have in maintaining the territory’s safety and security.
The latest development comes amid heightened scrutiny of the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force’s leadership. The Governor’s Office recently extended Assistant Commissioner Pamela Trevillion’s tenure by six months despite the Public Service Commission’s initial stance.
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IS SAYING )> GOV ) AS FAR AS AM CONCERNED , IT DON’T REALLY MATTER / YOUR HERO DONE SOLD THE COUNTRY TO THE CARTELS FOR A FEW DOLLARS , AND TRYING TO MAKE SCAPEGOATS OUT OF US , BUT NOT UNDER MY WATCH / AND THAT BLACK CANARY THAT IS PUSHING HIS RACIST RETHORIC WILL GET HIS
WINGS CLIPPED SOON
If it did not matter you would appointed Jacky but because race matters you want another white uk national, set of white supremacy running the place
Whites have a track record of success wherever they have layed down roots . Any country where they have settled has prospered , South africa , new Zealand , Australia , Hong Kong , US, Israel, Whites have an ability to instill order, organization , planning and execution and they understand the sacrifice for the greater good. This territory needs that kind of leadership . The Governor is smart to not fall for the woke ideology that is now being rejected worldwide.We need competence not cultural comformity
Yes we know the history of racism, slavery and oppression the latest now is to rewrite history. These people are dogs they caused too much death and suffering. Look at their history look what they did rape, enslaved, oppress, genocide, exploit, invade and lock up the innocent
whites dont have a monolopy on the behaviours you have listed . That is a human trait and ALL ethnicities have particpated in those atrocities .
Well we’ll is the Govna saying that the previous commish were not up to par. What has really change d that the requirements have to be redefined. The standards has always in the Govnas hands so clearly what you’re admitting that the VI has paid a high price for many failures. Failure at prison the ports the customs the police at immigration all that falls under the Govna’s. Btw I’ll support you if you get rid of three musketeers. The long service has not brought competence. The agenda for the top females is not fighting crime it’s parity.
Surely you jest!! They instil order? You mean dominate? You mean annihilate? You mean they bring havoc and destruction! That is what they do.
Locals were the best
for Jackie to shine, she is a very professional no messing about lady, who treats everyone the same no matter your last name, she is perfect for the job and hopefully she will be given the oppertunity to shine and brig the BVI crime rate down.
Give it a break Mr.Pruce. you and your gang want a UK national , a white one to be your next commissioner of police. Seeing straight through your mess. Does it really matter? Hmm.
In 2024/2025 and beyond. Law enforcement in the Virgin Islands needs to develop a culture where the corrupt police office or politician, fears the incorruptible police officer or politician and not the other way around. Race and Nationality will play a role in the deciding process for police management in the Virgin Islands. It does not matter how anyone tries to deny or refute this. Words are self-serving.
The police in the Virgin Islands and all other law enforcement entities needs to develop a futuristic culture where personnel act and be seen to be acting within the legal aspects of the law at ALL times, using considered descretions when warranted to do so. It is not perfect, never will be, but a concerted effort is needed to at minimum, to do the Just and right thing when addressing Human rights issues in law enforcement management.
it’s doesn’t matter to him , as long as the person is white, hahahahah, if what he says is the truth, all he has to do is confirm DCP Vanterpool to the post , hahahah , who he thinks he is talking to, we black but we are not longer slaves ..
From pruce statement alone it’s clear he is a r*
There you go again , using racism as an execuse to flex off yourself , just to get attention may ~ the lord help you to get rid of your evil mentality and when you go to the toilet , you can do us a favor and be a gentleman and *FLuSHIT* • thank U
This not about race.Blacks are good at many things ,They excel in sports and arts and entertainment and other areas where they surpass whites. This is about merely bringing attention to the competencies where whites excel. Why does it always have to be interpeted as being about race? why is it not ok to say that these are the things whites excel in?
@Not about race. Where does whites excell in law enforcement in the BVI? How many arrests they have made that led to convictions? Talk shit to me.
It ain’t about race. It’s about professionalism. The USVI had a bad problem with its police force. They did whatever they wanted and USVIslanders were afraid of them. The last straw was when a policeman beat up his girlfriend bad and nobody would do anything about it. The US government sent in local police to train the force. And some of those police were…wait…AFRICAN AMERICAN!. They trained the USVI police. The mess stopped, and the USVI people were better off. Amen.
Yes it does Mr. It has been white english men for centuries. So, yes it does sir.
Prove your mouth and colonial history and promote Jackie. She and us are deserving Sir.
“South africa , new Zealand , Australia , Hong Kong , US, Israel, Whites have an ability to instill order, organization , planning and execution and they understand the sacrifice for the greater good. ”
All the nations you listed were destroyed by white people, enslaved by white people and ethnically cleansed aka genocide or colonized. Real talk.
Hong kong was forced to buy Opium off the British. South Africa left in an apartheid state, Australia the natives were decimated, New Zealand colonized, America the Native American Indians were wiped out and moved to reservations, Israel speaks for it self.
Death and massacres of innocents today in 2024 and the sins covered over by white supremacy.
South Africa, New zealand, Australia, Hong Kong, America and Israel. After their destruction of the pristine lands and local cultures they replaced it with their own history.
If you support white supremacy you’d be wise to keep quiet about global history.
The only people who sacrificed more for the greater good was the Aztecs slaying Cortez’s men on their pyramid of murder.
But again the same Spaniard of European culture could not help himself when face with natives who own gold.
He was invited to their home, saw what they had, coveted it, and attacked them for their gold in their capital city Tenochtitlan now known as Mexico City.
He was a guest and pillaged the city other’s built to claim it as his own. That is White supremacy at its core.
So you have pointed out some atrocities committed by whites but conveniently left out those committed by the very aztecs that mention . Those indiginious populations that you mention in Mexico were some of the most vicious and brutal of all, capturing and enslaving all other tribes. So spare me the rightious indignation. The world is brutal , winners write history if roles were reversed it would be the exact same . Blacks dont hold some innate moral high ground. Given circumstance they have demonstrated the same vicous and brutal behaviour. You only have have to look at Africa and leaders like Idi Amin and more recently the genocide in Sudan. All those countries mentioned are superior economically and socially and that point you havent refuted.
The ongoing genocide of Haitians by the DR peoples who are in fact,of color and descendants of Haitians and other Caribbean African descendants is in front of allyo eyes but pretend not to see and for certain you don’t care leaving you as participants in the genocide while you embrace the murdererswith big open door by sea and by air and their thanks extended is to degrade the BVI ad prostitutes and thieves..Both illegal in these VI but their actions are bypassed and overlooked.
One way of these VI giving the finger to Haiti.
To believe black people don’t excel at civilization building & governing our own people is a total denial of history.
In the past black civilizations have been more fair than their European comparison, women being seen as equal including as rulers, head of house hold and owners of business is one way to judge.
The UK has stone henge. Africa has the Great pyramids, made with an understanding of astrology and tombs hidden away that European explorers would love to get their hands on first to steal its jewels as they did before.
Europe killed its wildlife, killed out all the wolves, destroyed their forest and now they go to Africa to see & hunt big game.
Why do you think the UK has a law about not returning the stolen artifacts from around the world to their rightful place of origin?
Thieving, lying culture at it core and you proven results want to talk down to black people and big up yourself. Go look in a mirror.
You may claim Egypt as Black but Egyptians dont see themselves as blacks . Arabs actually probably hate blacks more than whites because as they strive to become white they over compensate . Notice that other races dont have the vitriol towards whites that blacks do . They actually leverage the white mans expertise to further themselves.
and BTW those Pyramids brag on I wonder if they were build by free happy men and women ? or was it conqured slave labour?
Talk about woke ideology. Do you realize that is another stolen topic taken and twisted from Eygpt?
To be awake to the spirit and not asleep following material foolishness was the moto of Ancient Eygpt or kemet as it was known.
It is you who use woke to describe a state of sleep. Think about that, you are ignorant and slurped down the white supremacist racial programming to the point they have you using an African concept “woke” to mean asleep.
Woke = lgtbqrtrd+ is a rewriting of history once again by the colonizers.
Double speak I give you credit for that as an invention of your white heritage.
Whites reside in these BVI. .They own properties in these VI
Whites employ most of your imported bros and sis
Whites have contributed positively to the development of these BVI
They are good law abiding residents, 100% better than ” allyo
The BVI is a territory of the UK from where most are born citizens
Bvi slanders have demonstrated a failure in the curtailment crime
Whites are all around better citizens and demonstrably better candidates for the position of law and order enforcement in these VI as they as a group/ without exception and including their children at all ages and stage,have a stellar record of operating and behaving
within the confines of the laws
as mandated.
They can lead in the area of law by example unlike the local and foreign Blacks.
mandated in these VI.
The police department needs leadership and commitment. Not a friendship department.
Someone who can be the lighthouse, and not just the rescue boat.
As governor I say this because if I make a virgin islander be police commissioner there will be no lockup of politicians and cronies, plus everyone here is one family, but then and again our white superior logics that we are more qualified than you BVI people counts.
BVI news … enlightening to see just how many racists live amongst us.
Black People DOES not have a history of killing white People.