Police to clamp down on rental vehicles with tinted windows
Police Commissioner Mark Collins said law enforcers will be clamping down on rental vehicles with tinted windows, as these have been at the centre of most serious crimes in recent times.
The Commissioner gave the warning on the November 10 airing of the Morning Braff radio show, as he gave an update on serious crimes in the territory.
“One of the big things for me, ministers (of government), and citizens are these tinted rental vehicles that are going to around because they are seen at nearly every serious incident. So that’s where my clamp-down will be next — rental vehicles with tinted windows,” the Commissioner said.
At the same time, the Commissioner reiterated that the police cannot stop the crime surge with stops and searches, which he said are already being done. He said for every murder that has been committed this year, there are residents who know who has committed the crimes and should give information to the police.
He also said the six murders this year have resulted from local criminal groups that are feuding with each other. But even with this knowledge, residents remained concerned about the uptick in criminal activities that are becoming more and more brazen.
There have been a number of daylight shootings and a spate of burglaries in many communities across the territory.
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Watch out for those KIAS, those are the cars the criminals love to rent to commit crimes or use as their get aways when fleeing a crime.I don’t like driving next to any vehicle that is heavily tinted and can’t see who is inside. In the US, the police will pull a driver over if the windows are heavily tinted.
these wannabes gansters who think they got more brains than anybody else are using them tmfor their criminal activities and according to who looking for who innocent people can get killed if the person is seen in a rental that was turned back in and yhe person switched to another rental to cover their tracks , if you rent that same rental and they don’t know and do a drive by on that rental because they thought the person was still using it ( you can get killed by mistaken identity) easy as that , and it has happened many times before and still continue to happen , and not here alone
All car rental agencies on the Island should be required not to rent vehicles with tinted windows. In order to rent a car a valid drivers license and credit card should be produced at the time of rental NOT CASH.
Exactly, I don’t know why people continue to play the stupid game. If anyone has a car rental business and rental business takes cash to rent a car, the business is SHADY and should be investigated and padlocked. A legitimate car rental will not accept CASH TO RENT A CAR, ONLY A VALID LICENSE AND A VALID CREDIT CARD.
Does that include hearses?
You are such a stupid dumb REAR END.
@Sy Mon Pow er Hater, Let me do my business, sell my product and live a majestic life.
This is great news. Don’t just clamp down for one day, keep it ongoing, much of those crimes are committed in them rentals. Y’all police know this already.
Rental businesses are often covers for money-laundering, so clamp down on them too. Where did the money come from to buy the vehicles in the first place? Can’t prove it? Then lose the vehicles as the proceeds of criminal activity.
100% agree. Also they need to check out the heavy equipment / water delivery companies too. The FIA needs to do their job.
…all drive around in heavily tinted vehicles and then talk about transparency! Start at the top to enforce the law.
So I can’t hide my mistress any more when she visits me. Sign. There goes the rental car industry in the BVI
The RBVIPF should just remove the tinted windows and the air conditioning system. Then allow the owner to continue renting the vehicle with NO windows or AC!
Tourists love to rent open air vehicles!!
Yall worrying about tint as if that would stop crime. What yall should be worrying about is setting up cameras on every other lamp post across the territory, all business should have working cameras as well. And encourage homeowners to install the same if they can afford to do so.
If a rental owner refuse to give the police information about who rented their car last. LOCK THEM A$$ UP. If the person who rented the car denies allegations or refuses to give information LOCK THEM A$$ UP.
To help with cars “reported stolen” to commit crimes, rental owners need to start putting air tags on their vehicles. The client report it stolen, no problem check the location ASAP. And if that car was reported stolen and was found committing crime, trust me 99% of the times renter knew something about it.
If people could get away with committing crimes on bikes where you can see their whole body. There are some people who can drive with their seats lean right back. Tint-less windows will stop nothing.
If you disagree, then tell me how tint less windows will stop crime without having other measures in place.
About time. Rentals with tint need to be taken off.
They need to give supercop some sort of training when it comes to dealing with the public, he has absolutely NO manners!
many rental vehicles in BVI? Per capita must be way more than any other country.
I’m asking for a friend (the DEA).
GREAT NEWS LONG OVER DUE BUNCH OF IDIOTS FOLLOWING EACH OTHER PLAYING WANNA BE THUG
You can tell the THUGS & WANNA BE BANGERS by the amount of cow rope around their necks, the bigger the cow rope, the badder I am with the bigger GRIP in my pocket, every finger is covered with gold plated rings, tinted windows, pants swinging below their behinds, no one want to see your smelly underwear, hoodies with hoods over their heads in the blazing heat with sunglasses trying to look all cool. Real gangsters don’t move the way you guys move. It ain’t about the guns that you are hiding behind.
Don’t forget the GEE HETTOOO SKEEZERS AKA HOOD RAT WOMEN THAT IS RIDING WITH THEM.
Please remove all the unlicensed dune buggies, 4 wheelers, over 125cc motor cycles/scooters and low rider cars that can’t go straight over speed bumps from the roads and highways of the BVI.
Also allow only 4 wheel vehicles to drive on any dual carriageway in the BVI. No 1, 2 or 3 wheel vehicles permitted!!
This is the best news I’ve heard in a long time. It seems like every rental I see is blocked out. I mean dark out..Why rental companies have to block their vehicles out and why license department don’t do their job, they all quick to jump on the police when all depts are failing.
Agree. DMV what are you doing?
Thank you for your comment. The police may have their faults but anything that goes wrong the police gets blame. But when they are in trouble, their man or husband is beating the hell out of some of them or they need help they call the same police that they are bashing for help. Look at how the ignorant dry hair jerk with the fake gold rings on his finger was acting when he was told he could not park his motor cycle on the sidewalk up at the complex. Then you had the IGNORANT ONES SAYING THE COP WAS UPSET BECAUSE HE COULD NOT SEIZE THE MOTORCYCLE.
Those drivers move smarter than the police, cause they seem to be working only from 9-5pm. The rentals with really dark tint moving early mornings and late in the night. If police exercise their duties outside that 9-5pm, they will see a whole lot of vehicles without tint “outside”. Most of those vehicles park and hidden during the daytime. Who knows, knows!
Them boys on the scooters don’t need tinted window,them strap with them Things in their bad.
What is the reason for the heavy tinted windows on this 2×4 Island. To hide hide their ugly black faces? I agree 100% that I will never rent a Kia because is the choice car for the criminals. Just say I rent one of those cars from a crocked car rental that takes cash and the car was involved in a crime unknown to me and I am driving along and someone pull up along side me and start shooting up the rental I am driving.
West bank bragged about green light when them man got killed. He even change his name to killer. But they all A f family.u just like James Ford, Benjamin monk u must have work with them
NO ONE THING CAN STOP THE CRIME WAVE THAT IS GOING ON HERE IT HAS TO BE A COMBINATION OF THINGS WORKING TOGETHER , THE TINTED WINDOWS WILL HELP AS A DETERRENT AND WHATEVER IS NECESSARY IN THE EFFORT TO GET THE CRIME STOPPED SHOULD BE UTILIZED , SO WHY YOU PICK ON THAT ❓️
I see government vehicles with illegal tints. Maybe we should look inwards first
Not a damn thing is going to be done about it. Hate to say it but it must be said and I hope it never happens. Until one of the Politicians or one of their family members or one of the famous Tortola last name get tap by a criminal nothing will be done about it. Bet if something happens to one of them they will send a swat team to blow in doors all over the Island without warrants until the perp is found. Remember now, no one is immune from the criminals that control and run the Island, no one is safe. Look at how they walk into the late President of Haiti Home and gun him and his wife down in their bedroom killing him and seriously wounding his wife with body guards around. You can hide behind 20 deadbolt locks on your front and back doors, if the criminals set out to get you they will get you behind those 20 deadbolt locks.
I have seen tint film being advertised for sale. So maybe the renters put the tint on, not the dealers. Ive lost count of how many tint clampdowns there have been over the years.
As far as I know, renters CANOT take it upon themselves to put tints on a vehicle that has been rented. The vehicle is the property of the rental agency. Same as if you rent an apartment/house from a landlord the tenant CANOT take it upon themselves to alter anything or change anything without the landlords permission. Butttt in the good ole BVI, people tend to make their own rules and it is quite normal to do as they please. The first thing you hear is I BORN YAH SO I CAN DO AS I PLEASE. I POLITELY ASK MY NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR TO PLEASE TELL HIS TWO BAD RUG RATS TO STOP RUNNING AND RIDING THEIR BIKES AND SCOOTERS ACROSS MY YARD DESTROYING MY FLOWERS, his answer to me was HIM AND HIS TWO RUG RATS WAS BORN YAH AND I SHOULD GO BACK TO WHERE I CAME FROM. THE NERVE RIGHT?
@@@HONESTLY SPEAKING: Indeed, jobs, small start up business loans with payable interest rates and more will reverse the crime spike.
Other, we have many times refer to the brain drain of the territory which is true and have drastic effects on the economy.
The other is money drain. When thousands of people daily and weekly makes money here and sends it on a way trip, that hurts the economy in multitude of ways.
There are no jobs being created neither by government nor private enterprise. Frankly, everyone is just taking, sucking and sending away.
And no, it is not just the folk from the Caribbean, or Santo Domingo, I had a friend who goes practically broke from pay check to pay check because she/he sends 99% of the income home to a bank account every week., but it is also the high level businesses and those of European descent that are equally guilty.
Therefore, some thing must be done within the economic policies of the governing party o retard and slow down the hemorrhaging of the money drain out of the territory. Meanwhile, jobs, need to be created already.
The thousand jobs in a thousand days were just pure fake narratives to gather the sheep round the stewpid bowl to drink of the stewpid koolaid. And drank they did.
Nobody is creating jobs and every body is sending hundreds of thousands on a one way trip out of the country.
Them rental and and most tinted vehicles,do a lot of dirty work around here especially in the day time…the guys even put pretty females…as drivers and these study horny male officers…ALWAYS let them past with out even giving a search!!
Your agency have to take some of the blame as well. A heavily tinted vehicle should not be able to pass inspection. If the vehicle is lightly tinted where one can see the occupants in the vehicle that is fine. Any tint that is so dark where you can only see inside when the windows is rolled down is a safety issue and should not pass inspection.
Tinttttt? SMH, During one of the hottest periods we’ve experienced, our big concern is tint & tinted rentals??
Okay, Assuming that most crimes are done in a tinted rental, Let’s ask some rhetorical questions can we?
Do these rentals have plates? Do you know which company the rental plate belongs to? Do you have an estimated time as to when the crime was committed?
Wellllll. If the job of the investigators are executed correctly, Then you’ll know who was responsible or in possession of the vehicle at the time. TINT CANT HIDE THAT. Next, when it comes to personal vehicles, the same ID plates that officers are adamant that we keep visible, serves what purpose exactly? Not to IDENTIFY THE OWNER?
Reading these comments make me ponder. We have sense as a people? Or is it because a tinted Kia Soul picked up a mistress of ours we’re having busschesstytiss and blinded by emotion.
Everybody has a job to do, and this initiative is a waste of tax payers money. This is reactive NOT PROACTIVE!!!!
Use funds to invest in log systems in those trucks that you DO NOT take care of and merge with DMV. I’d like 10k for that advice.
Then we can use some of the said tax or even the funds from major busts (THAT OBVIOUSLY DID NOT INCLUDE TINTED VEHICLES) for programs to initiate a better environment for the younger generation, providing them with a trade education and large scale opportunities that allows them to see and make a change in themselves AND the community.
These trades do not necessarily have to come from a school. Team up with local welders, contractors, mechanics, marine technicians, TINT INSTALLERS, electricians and other trade professions/ professionals and allow part of our taxes to pay them.
Pay to learn, play to win. That’s a billion dollar advice