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RVIPF seize 11,000 kilos of cocaine in 2022

Not the actual drugs mentioned in the story.

Officers of the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF) have recovered 11,000 kilograms of cocaine over the past 12 months.

This is according to Commissioner of Police, Mark Collins, who appeared before the Standing Finance Committee (SFC) comprised of legislators in the House of Assembly (HOA) recently.

Collins told the SFC that this was in addition to the seizure of 68 firearms and a little more than 2,000 rounds of ammunition. 

In the meantime, the top cop told the SFC one of two persons arrested for murder by police earlier this year was connected to 36 of those firearms.

Lawmakers were also told that the RVIPF’s Major Crime team has dealt with six homicides in 2022, with one of those matters being successfully concluded. 

Domestic violence

Commenting on other areas of crime, Collins explained that crime in the territory has slightly increased in the areas of sexual offenses, domestic violence and drug related matters but it has decreased for burglaries, robberies and serious offences.

According to Collins, domestic violence is significantly the most reported crime in the BVI. 

The commissioner further explained to lawmakers that a domestic violence forum has been established with a partner agency to manage the response to this challenge. 

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  1. next question says:

    HOW MUCH THEY THIEF?

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  2. wow says:

    What a haul!

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  3. What was done with it? says:

    The incinerator isnt working for a year now

  4. BuzzBvi says:

    The Unity Gov is to use it to replace increments and as thankyous for all the other hard working departments. Cash was thought better for the Finance people so they could stay focused. Not really going to matter for the people to carry on not fixing the roads and may even cheer some folks up in customs and immigration. Only economic choice we have until fishers and farmers start working again when their cash bonanza runs out and they finally replace drugs as the first pillar of our economy once more. With 3000 civil servants that’ll be about 4 kilos each. (For personal recreational use only.)

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  5. How says:

    much they confiscate from the segregated pale communities? Just asking.. None, and it is known and scientific fact they use equal if not more than colored folk. So gou ahead and thumb your nose down cause yo canhn tek the truth, but the truth is the truth. Apply the law equally and sch statements couldnotbe uttered.

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  6. NOBODY SEEM TO CARE says:

    About the amount of lives that was lost because of cocaine ,not even the holy men , Or the political pretenders, not even the new savior , who said FREE HIS PUPPETS

  7. Where is the Christian Council when you need them? says:

    Oh..how can I forget? They are busy fighting gay marriage (Best referred as marriage equality). Their silence on this menace to society is deafening.

    They need to learn how to walk and chew gum simultaneously. This amount of drugs being confiscated in the territory needs their immediate attention giving their moral position on less critical issues.

    11K kilos? Now, that’s a lot of drugs. That’s enough drugs to kill us all on this island. I tried counting it out loud but my mouth got tired at 10 thousand.

    The big unknown here is:

    If so much cocaine got confiscated by law enforcement, how much cocaine actually made it thru? We can only imagine. I cannot even venture a guess.

  8. Holic says:

    An dem man still selling man shyte feh dem doney pun de street. Dem man whan lock mehson.

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  9. PV says:

    For context that is about the same as the whole of the UK. Quite a lot!

  10. WT actual F says:

    I think we got a user here, i read that outloud and i am now dumber from the effort , speak english or something not dumb f**k like you did

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  11. @WHERE IS THE CRISTIAN COUNCIL ? says:

    that’s only a name they carry as a front , their inaction speaks for them . Just like csc , the bishUp , not forgetting the Quiet
    pastor and all 3 ah dem from CGB and all 3 ah dem is silent like lambs on the guns , murder, drugs and the disappearance of youths / but they yapping on everything else, csc and the bishop are more interested in racism and politics , I notice csc gorne ghost these last days , maybe he took a hint from the QUiET one .( their new name is ( pretenders unlimited .com )

  12. Intuitiveness and a Sixth Sense Indicates That says:

    CONTROL OF ALL THE APPERATUSES RELATIVE TO THE TRDAE AND CAPITAL POLITICAL, ECONOMICAL LEGAL TRANSPORTATION, ETC,,..

    THEDRUG TRADE IS A TRILLION DOLLAR INDUSTRYTHAT IS RAN ANS CONTROLLED BY GOVERNMENTS AND THE RICHEST OF THE RICHEST PEOPLE ON EARTH. THEIR LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES ARE THEIR SUFISTICATED PROTECTIVE ARMIES IN THE BUSINESS.

    FOR EXAMPLE, THE 11,000G, GAURANTEED, FOR THE SHOW MUCH MORE WENT IN THAN WAS CONFISCATED PRETESIVELY BY LAW ENFORCEMENT, WHICH THEN DISAPPEARED BEHIND THE SCENE AND RIGHT BACK INTO THE STOCK, AND INTO STREET AND UP THE NOSES WHERE IT WAS INTENDED.

    THEY ALL HERE TRYING TO PAINT THE BVI AS THE CENTER OF THE WORLD WIDE DRUG CARTEL TRADE, WHEN THE CLIENTELE HERE IS TO MINISCULE TO SUPPORTATRILLION DOLLOR INDUSTRY, WHILE THEY STUFFING AND LAUNDERING THE BULKS OF MONEY DAILY ACROSS THE GLOBE, AS THEY DEFLECT BY SCAPE GOATING A LITTLE SMALL HELPLESS ISLAND.

    WHO ALL YO THINK ALLYO PULLING WOOL OVER WHOSE FACES??

    HISTORY HAS STATED THAT THE UK AND US BOTH, FROM THE HIGHEST OFFICES BUILTTHEIR RESPECTIVE NATIONSFROM THE HERION PRODUCT AND TRADE. RESEARCH IT IF YOU PLEASE.. THINK THAT CAPITALIST MENTALITY EVER STOPPED? THINK AGAIN.

    SO THE BUSINESS SEEN AROUND THE BVI IS MRETHAN LIKELY 90% FORIEGNERS, WHITES, CAUCASIANS AND 10% LOCALS AS PAWNS, TRANSSHIPPERS.

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  13. Jim says:

    Meanwhile 100k and more made it through.

    BVI is nature’s dirty little secret

  14. Head coach stash says:

    Someone gonna find the stash head coach has on island(s) yet? You dont think he has product in a safe somewhere….
    really….
    Go get the stash house RVIPF

  15. @ HEAD COACH STASH says:

    Why you think the royal navy was refused ? And why you think those floating island was used to act like the were protecting the border ? They are three store room , they collect what was dropped off in the sea and
    secured right under the noses of the RVIPF at the dock , real clever operation by the 10% as the blogger (intuitiveness ) said

  16. @@ HEAD COACH STASH says:

    Frankly don’t think that is how the 10% functions exactly., You have your opinion, as sarcastic as it appears to be, maybe even not.

    Facts are, over 409 tons of cocaine are manufactured in just one country in South America daily. I will not name the country out of respect for it.

    Who owns the money to purchase that much coke? BVI government? BVI people? That is what some would use as properganda to fool the world into believing..

    But the BVI do not own the super jets, the super liners, the super cargo freighters, the connection with the world’s strongest military, law enforce agents, international and domestic police drug enforcement agencies, access to trillions of dollars in supposed survallance, protection and confiscation customs and satelite appratuses.

    And lastly, the BVI do not have the financial resoures to compete with the real business stake holders. If and when they striive and attempt to come level and compete on that level, on their turf, they will more than likely set them up and take them down. Could be a similar scenario took placea fewmonths in Florida a few months ago. Some outsider was getting to big and powerful.

  17. @jim says:

    prove it jim boy. You probably one of the big VIP’s

    Virgin Island players.

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