‘We never see them’ – Police criticised for not patrolling in EE
Officers of the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force have once again been criticised for not being visible in the community, particularly in the East End area where several murders and other serious crimes have taken place over the past year.
Eighth District Representative Marlon Penn said he was concerned by the closure of the East End Police Station but he explained that he and other persons protested and the station is now manned 24/7.
When questioned by hosts of the Talking Points show about the reasons for the closure of the station, Penn stated: “The Commissioner expressed that he believes that the best use of his manpower is to be patrolling.”
But co-hosts Elvin Grant and Violet Gaul said the officers are never seen around the community.
Police Commissioner Mark Collins announced that there would be more patrols following two recent incidents where a prison van was ambushed and an intruder entered the Elmore Stoutt High School and created a disturbance.
Penn argued, however, that even though there is a need for police patrols, police stations also need to be manned for persons who turn up to file complaints or make a report.
“Absolutely, if you have an incident and you run into the station, you can’t get in because it’s locked. What do you do?” Grant asked.
The District Representative expressed that it was unfortunate that there is a stigma attached to the East End community as a result of the murders – one of which occurred in front of his office – and the other violent crime that has happened there.
Commenting on calls for the Commissioner to resign, Penn said there is some cause for concern and he called for an internal review process to happen. This is particularly in light of a recent scandal where Collins denied he was involved in a cover-up of an internal matter involving two former police officers.
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This is a historic problem in the BVI. You can go months at a time without seeing a single officer on the street anywhere.
That is because historically,culturally and morally. BvIslanders are without crime for years in and out. There was no need for the expected and degraded presence of police keeping the melanated murderous and thieving natives closely and intrusive OKunder watch. Policemen appeared when and if called and marched in parades for show,Hovering was not the thing.
Unfortunately and disgustingly this has changed to reflect the new and dominant imported cultures,lookalikes physically but culturally and historically are raised and nurtured in crime its expectations and its environments. Police presence is constant and expected nearby comfort of fears and guess what…it makes no difference in their crime rate of thousands lost lives yearly.
Sans their regretful presence and or decreased, in these VIand with the other hundreds of diverse cultures remaining there would be bliss and no sightings of policemen and with no complaints The expense and the occupational presence of foreign overseers of behavioral containment of the native Negros as expected mostly by the negros themselves
Behavioural conditioning is a thing for the negros even more so in this the age of Black Lives Matter because Black lives,in fact and jn obvious truth, Matters least to Blacks.
You mean never in seen in whte and other enclaves? No, they don’t never bring that fact up, do they?
By design and deliberate racil intent, those communities are never, ever policed and the world knows why.
I can hear all those involved in the industry saying please don’t change a thing, makes our hustles so much easier as we chase a majestic life.
U OPEN YOUR YOU WILL
Perhaps if the U.K. government actually had to pay them there might be a turnaround.
Them police working for west bank. Killer come out them got it for u just like your dog. . R I P poode don’t worry 30-06
Brother why do you want to patrol my area? Are you mad?
You all so sadistically inclined simply wants to have targets for your insults disdain and disrespect. Robocop was an example.
Deliberately not assisting in the apprehension of the knowledged and the witnessed murdering of your bro” and your sons. Participating knowingly in their ill-gotten gains. What a set! Even the murderer of children all yo keeping secret and hiding but in church and people and the victims faces grinning your hypocrisy.
Cops try a thing and arrest tis ” police brutality. Crime is pleasure and pastime for the likes of the varmints as they hate each other and themselves but enjoys the pathetic lifestyle in hopes that they be somebody. Enjoy your selves,allyo not even human.
Stop it last night I see them had Bert running up the road last night them police is happy people
Stop it last night I see them had Bert running up the road last night them police is happy people
Something these ministers fail to say is that no local person wants to join because of the low payment for such a dangerous job. Too the police force does not have staff. The resources are poor and they still housing in a building built since 1849. Also to many people are anti police in bvi. Starting with the ministers. Irma, covid only the police were in the front line and still when it comes to their increment is a problem to pay them. I also understand that the human resources there are anti police as well. The UK needs to just take over the country. The ministers don’t have the best interest at hands for this country.
Poor leadership by the Commissioner, he seems divisive. He also alienated himself from the community when he tried to tell grown people that things that were true are actually not true – and vice versa. As if he thinks his mind games will work here.
The UK need to keep changing them until we get one that can make a positive difference.
@Yashua, you are right. I understand their pay is extreemly poor. Is this deliberate? I overheard people say that no one care to review their pay because majority of them are not locals. Even at that are we not punishing the locals among them?. Hire a monkey and pay pennies. Please increase the pay of these police officers otherwise you will loose them to the Islands. Just check and compare their pay with St Thomas. How equiped are? For example, do they have computers and printers to do their jobs? Is the department understaffed, making officers to work for long hours which could undermine their efficiency? What about the issue of mold that has persisted for over a decade in the old building?. If took the past commissioner overrulling us to ensure the Department has a bus. It shouldnt be so.
The complete force has a managerial or a lack of managerial skill problem..This is the out come
You don’t see them. Imagine it have vehicles parking on the highway road every evening in fat hogs bay obstructing free flow of traffic and like the don’t see. Backhoe sometimes pass with track on and you don’t see them. Bikes passing every second with tampered muffler and you don’t see the popos
They get two guns off the street and you haven’t heard a gunshot since. Almost as if they lost all there guns and noww they don’t want to come outside.
You dont see them at all i does wonder if them hire police officers just to sit inside only or tortola just dont have police . The royal virgin islands police force is a circus . All i see happening is expats running coming to hhe bvi applying to be police officer just to run from paying work permit they dont give one shit about the bvi the police force for them is a easy way in . The force has more criminals that what we have out here.
THEIR JOB , ALL YO HOLLERING -THAT THEM ISLUND POLICE HARASSING THE YOUTHS /U ALL SAY THE YOUTHS BORN HER , SO THEY ARE ENTITLED / AMD WHEN THEIR DRIVEBYS ALL BYO GIVE THEM A PAT ON THEIR SHOULDER AND TELL THEM GO AND SIN NO MORE , WHEN THE GET CAUGHT RUNNING DRUGS , JUST ANOTHER PAT ON THEIR SHOULDER AGAIN , TAXPAYERS MONEY GETTING SQUANDERED AND NOTHING GETTING FIXED P
THEIR JOB , ALL YO HOLLERING -THAT THEM ISLUND POLICE HARASSING THE YOUTHS /U ALL SAY THE YOUTHS BORN HER , SO THEY ARE ENTITLED / AMD WHEN THEIR DRIVEBYS ALL BYO GIVE THEM A PAT ON THEIR SHOULDER AND TELL THEM GO AND SIN NO MORE , WHEN THE GET CAUGHT RUNNING DRUGS , JUST ANOTHER PAT ON THEIR SHOULDER AGAIN , TAXPAYERS MONEY GETTING SQUANDERED AND NOTHING GETTING FIXED WITH IT AND U ALL POINTING YOUR DIRTY FINGERS AT THE UK / AND THE POLICE / PLUS A LOT OF YOU KNOW ABOUT A LOT THE KILLINGS AND THE KILLERS BUT LOOKING THE OTHER WAY OR SWEEPING IT UNDER THE RUG AS USUAL AS IF IT WILL DISAPPEAR / WHAT A BUNCH OF HYPOCRITES / ITS ALWAYS SOMEONE ELSE’S FAULT THE POLICE CAN ONLY WORK WITH WHAT THEY HAVE TO WORK WITH /AND THEN THERE IS A COUPLE OF ROGUE COPS THAT IN THE SYSTEM , BUT IT LOOKS LIKE THEY ARE BEING PROTECTED THOSE IN HIGH SOCIETY BUT BLONDIE HOLLERING OUT HIS USUAL RACIST LYRICS AT THE UK / YHE GOVERNOR AND THE COMMISSIONER AND NOW WE SEEING SOME MINISTERS JOINING IN AND DANCING TO BEAT OF THE MUSIC / TSLK ON THE STREETS IS THAT THEY JUST SCAPEGOATING THE WHITE BOYZ TO COVER THEIR TRACKS ASSOCIATED WITH THE ( COI ) ONE WSNTS TO START CHASING THE COI AND AND ANOTHER ONE SAYING ITS CAUSING RETARDATION / WHICH BRINGS TO MIND – WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE AND WHERE HAVE THEY BEEN LIVING SINCE ( 2000 )❓️
Ayo too nuff wid ayo self, when dem was on the road doing dem stop and search ayo same ones complaining bout invasion of privacy and all kinda crap, strupes, you really can’t please people.
The police force was more structured and organized today, it looks adhoc. You use to saw the police cars on the beat at leasr three to four times in the night driving up through parham town that was on b the earlies
Of course crime was not rampant in East End. People looked out for each other.
Today the population has grown the officers are just a handful of expatriates. The local young people do not have any interest of going in the force.
The police in East End are scared for their own safety . Facing guns with baton
I do not blame them
Look
At the last shoot out by the East Ens … the guards had batons to defend themselves what nonsense is this
We bury our head in the sand.
Tham need a confrontation
They are updeislun police,a foreign foreign occupying entity as a redilt of the presence of their homies and the resulting uptick in crime.
They cannot work as Policenen in St Thomas or any where on US soil. They are a foreign occupying force of a desperate needed necessity Certain their current salary is a lot more than in their home countries and they are idle.
They living their best lives right along with their homies in a land of make-believe the VI. A whole day goes by and no murder.They b e very had it so good.
due to constant surveillance of the BVI by other law enforcement agencies operating in the Caribbean.
Yet every time u look they take the vehicle and run gone town.