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Governor to bring in 'UK support' for Acting CoP Vanterpool

- could her replacement be among them?
Acting Commissioner Jacqueline E. Vanterpool will have a team from the UK assisting her with the Law Enforcement Review, pratical assistance with the Marine Unit, intelligence, data management, and evidence gathering, and in an advisory role. Photo: Facebook
(L-R) Talking Points Co-host Damion C. Grange and Violet Thomas Gaul, Governor Daniel Pruce, and co-host Elvin Grant. Photo: Facebook
(L-R) Talking Points Co-host Damion C. Grange and Violet Thomas Gaul, Governor Daniel Pruce, and co-host Elvin Grant. Photo: Facebook
The role of Commissioner of Police in the Virgin Islands became vacant following the retirement of Mark Collins. Photo: VINO/File
The role of Commissioner of Police in the Virgin Islands became vacant following the retirement of Mark Collins. Photo: VINO/File
BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI- As part of plans for 2025, Governor Daniel Pruce intends to bring in reinforcement from the United Kingdom (UK) to assist Acting Commissioner of Police (CoP) Jacqueline E. Vanterpool.

Governor Pruce was a guest on Talking Points’ on Monday, January 27, 2025, on ZBVI 780 AM.

The question is whether one of these UK consultants may be the next CoP for the Virgin Islands (VI).

The Governor has previously said the next CoP would be someone with not only extensive policing experience and credibility to lead an important and complex organisation such as the RVIPF but also possess the ability to demonstrate that they have led transformational change in a complex organisation operating in a very challenging environment.

The search for a new CoP began last year, 2024, ahead of Mark Collins’ departure from the job in November 2024; however, the recruitment process was stopped due to the first volume of the Law Enforcement Review indicating that the requirements initially advertised had to be reviewed so the right person for the job is chosen. 

The Governor had also stated that they are awaiting the second volume of the review before restarting the recruitment process for a new CoP. In the interim, Vanterpool has been acting in the office of CoP. 

‘Supportive package of assistance’ being developed’- Governor Pruce

Governor Pruce explained on Monday’s Talking Points that a “meaningful and supportive package of assistance” is being developed to help Commissioner Vanterpool achieve the objectives she has set out for her time in the office. 

“We’re working out details with colleagues in the UK but what I’m seeking to put in place is experience drawn from colleagues in the UK which can take its direction from the Acting Commissioner,” he said. 

These individuals who will be brought in will work in proximity to her and be stationed in the VI. He quickly added, “She’s in charge of them and she will direct them what to do”. 

6 or 7 individuals to be brought in from UK

“Do you have a number in mind, Governor, regarding the number of persons you would like to have in this capacity?” Co-host Damion C. Grange asked. 

Governor Pruce said he intends for a “couple” of individuals to come in to work with Vanterpool closely on the Law Enforcement Review and in an advisory role. 

He also plans on having another individual come in to assist with the practical delivery of the Law Enforcement Review Volume 2. “So this would be more of an implementation manager who can work for the police, also help other law enforcement agencies as well. We had a similar advisor help with the first volume and that proved to be very effective,” he explained.

Gov wants UK officers to work long-term in VI

Then, the Governor plans to bring in what he called a “combination of different officers” to look at key operational areas to provide practical assistance to "make things better". These key areas include the RVIPF’s Marine Unit, intelligence, data management, and evidence gathering. “That may be another three or four people,” he said. 

Governor Pruce added that his objective is to bring in people with practical experience and stay in the VI for a “meaningful period of time”. 

“I don’t want anyone to do one-week wonders, people that fly in and fly out,” he said.  

The Governor has said he thinks Vanterpool is doing a "fantastic job" however he stopped short of saying whether or not she is being considered for the role permanently. 

The individuals being brought in, he emphasised, are to support her as "this is her team, this is her force".

See link to previous story

https://www.virginislandsnewsonline.com/en/news/acting-cop-vanterpool-is-doing-a-fantastic-job-gov-pruce

27 Responses to “Governor to bring in 'UK support' for Acting CoP Vanterpool”

  • The watchdog (30/01/2025, 09:43) Like (22) Dislike (16) Reply
    Rubbish they are here already and they are no help just more racism and raping of tax payers dollars
  • John (30/01/2025, 10:05) Like (18) Dislike (6) Reply
    That govener dont feal That vanterpóol can do the job and local wont respect her any way so let the uk come in
    • Well (30/01/2025, 14:46) Like (8) Dislike (6) Reply
      Apparently, she’s managed to nab a lot more criminals in her brief tenure compared to previous administrators.
      • rubbish (30/01/2025, 15:21) Like (5) Dislike (1) Reply
        Rubbish!! That in a nonsensical statement. Her initiatives have nothing to do with fighting crime but rather to appease the masses and win the popularity vote. The officers been working and will continue to do so regardless of who is at the top.
  • ??? (30/01/2025, 10:12) Like (10) Dislike (3) Reply
    So what happened to DPC Armory? Why can't the local( meaning senior ranking officers in the Force) not be assigned to aide APC Vanterpool. H.E. think he pulling covers over people's eyes. Whom ever he brings in to work alongside the DPC will eventually get the Post.
    • @???? (30/01/2025, 18:51) Like (2) Dislike (2) Reply
      Because they want to start a clean slate. The don’t trust the above mentioned and I don’t blame them. You locals sweep and have swept to many things under the rug.
  • Priorities (30/01/2025, 10:26) Like (3) Dislike (3) Reply
    Where was the support when the criminals were gunning down our grandmothers and school children? What was she even doing to help solve some of those cases being that she is a local, you would think all the local officers would have been tackling some of those cases and show us they really care.....but nah!!!! Yall don't study the victims.
  • Local (30/01/2025, 10:46) Like (8) Dislike (9) Reply
    These governor will never accept a black police commisioner must less a local one.
  • 2024 (30/01/2025, 10:49) Like (4) Dislike (5) Reply
    whole thing Mash Up Now: Going Home After Midnight and you get a knee in the Back Of Your Neck

    Wake up and Live former Slave Masters Back: Law Enforcement Is Very Serious Thing

    With the Passing of those New-Laws in A Black Community

    Run chat that
  • More than that. (30/01/2025, 11:15) Like (26) Dislike (16) Reply
    We need aComplete Britain take over. Things not getting better. The ship is sinking Mr Governor. Stopplaying Mr. Gov. This ain't no joke. Time to give Britain the wheel.
  • Karnage (30/01/2025, 11:29) Like (5) Dislike (0) Reply
    This dude SMH. If it aint white it aint right.
  • The Nation (30/01/2025, 11:29) Like (1) Dislike (0) Reply
    Lets hope the bar wouldnt be set for the new recruitment process that it is not attainable by locals. If one can hold the post by acting it is possible that they can take on the substantive post. Develop local talent for a change.
  • tola (30/01/2025, 11:33) Like (3) Dislike (2) Reply
    When they come it just to enjoy tax people money
  • Honestly (30/01/2025, 12:15) Like (15) Dislike (3) Reply
    This is a good thing, why? she needs more training for the position which in my opinion is a good thing.
  • Safe haven (30/01/2025, 13:46) Like (12) Dislike (1) Reply
    The BVI is safe because of the people not because there is a police watching over our back 24/7. It has never been safe at the natural wonders or beaches not even a life guard but it is safe because the people are friendly. That is where we have to correct what is going wrong in our safe haven do not turn it into a spy haven where you can never trust a friendly relationship is real.
  • Favors (30/01/2025, 14:49) Like (1) Dislike (0) Reply
    Well they’ll get them
    Now
  • hmm (30/01/2025, 14:51) Like (1) Dislike (2) Reply
    They bringing more of them, overpaying them more than the local police.
  • Forbidden Truth (30/01/2025, 15:15) Like (3) Dislike (0) Reply
    Thus Governor is playing a Mickey Mouse game wi th h law enforcement in the Virgin Islands.
  • Listen (30/01/2025, 18:46) Like (4) Dislike (1) Reply
    Commissioner Collins as well as the UK Commissioner before him are all of the opinion that the crime in our community is little to none, so they do the bare minimum. We keep calling for UK to take over, take over where? They think we are living in grand style and will do nothing to make it better, crime and all. If it was Acting Comm. Vanterpool that was in charge when all of these police officers were arrested on drug possession and white UK officer ended up in the ocean, which is still a mystery, we would be jumping up and down. Governor Pruce should know that we are majority in favour of our own local Commissioner, Ag. Vanterpool being Commissioner, why, she cares if we have one murder because one is too much. So give me a break with these UK Commissioners, it seems to me that things got worse as the last two commissioners were just that.
  • HMP (30/01/2025, 19:03) Like (3) Dislike (3) Reply
    Daniel Pruce is doing everything he can to Undermind Jacky hoping to convince us we need another white man from the UK
  • Really (30/01/2025, 23:17) Like (1) Dislike (0) Reply
    God damn it folks! Why is it a big deal whether black or white? Just get help that the BVI desperately needs.
  • BRAD BOYNES (30/01/2025, 23:21) Like (3) Dislike (0) Reply
    Wicked disciples of Lucifer roaming the Virgin Islands.
  • ... (31/01/2025, 11:38) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    Because sad to say the truth those colonial god save the queen UK people come in saying they come to help but really they are on another mission! That is how they operate. Look at France in Africa funding terrorist so they can come save the day and stop independence. They have Africans using money they print & control.

    Do you really think the UK doesnt know who all is selling and moving the drugs from 20 years ago and beyond???

    They know just like they said to Andrew Fahie when governor Jas smiled on stage. They let it continue until they can score political points and make a COI and do whatever the hell they can to make us look un-able to care for ourself. They tempt our people too and we wonder why they are in a greedy circle. You only need to look at Andrew to see the agents are in the tight circles and causing some of our mess and we blame the local who they push to greed. All they have is money.

    Yes we are unable when you continue sabotaging us. Dangling a dollar in our face to do wrong meanwhile you are the police.

    What happened to that taboo guy who they said was running gun for years. nothing. When they say the white UK police are coming to help, they are on a whole other mission creating and maintaining chaos...
  • Knowledge is Power (31/01/2025, 12:09) Like (3) Dislike (0) Reply
    Notice this: slavery was abolished not too long ago. Blacks were let loose like cattle. The former slave owners wanted protection from retaliation by the freed salves. Hence police forces were set up to monitor and suppress any ideas of revolting.
    Here we are today…. Local police may not look out for the interest of the whites in the territory. To put a check on that, Great Britian sends her representative in the form of a governor which is the long arm of colonialism to remind us who is in charge until we go independent.

    The local acting commissioner of police Ms. Vanterpool has done just what the past white commissioners have done. She may have done more to stamp out internal corruption among the ranks. However, notwithstanding Mr. Pruce said she is doing a “fantastic job”, he still to avoid embarrassment, that we always had the potential to police ourselves, is bringing in UK officers on the ground. Why did he not do that with the UK commissioners?

    There were murders, robberies and serious crimes being committed under their watch. Now to play the psychological and colonialist mind game, is bringing in UK officers to minimize whatever good Ms. Vanterpool does as to say her success is as a consequence of the UK officers he brought in. So UK is holding our hands because we cannot manage. But under their watch, there were several murders under the last three UK commissioners. Where was the UK help?
    The mind gams continues. Our politicians are crippled to the point that the focus is on tit for tat, fighting over who stole the cookie, who hates who, who is friends with who ect, while UK laughs at us. Poor “liberated slaves?????” They will never growl up!!!
  • Stealth (31/01/2025, 12:47) Like (3) Dislike (0) Reply
    What is the difference among former UK-appointed governors Agustus Jaspert, and John Rankin, and current UK-appointed govern Daniel Pruce?? I will let you the reader answer that question. The UK -appointed governor is BIG whale in a small pond. They have arrived. They are blessed with unilateral power , despite the Virgin Islands supposedly being a self-governing territory, which is a farce and mirage. The peaceful Great March of 24 November 1949 led by national hero Theodolph Faulkner happened and driven because of the dictatorial rule and terrorist tendencies of UK-appointed Administrator/commissioner John Augustus Cockburn Cruikshank. The March attained positive results and outcomes. Since then however Virgin Islanders have become soft, lazy , materialistic, want others to fight the battles while they hide behind the scene in the dark shadows, behaving in meritorious manumission manner. Where have the Dolph Faulkner, Christopher Flemings, Noel Lloyd, etc gone? The current UK-appointed governor(s) is employing might is right, might is w…e and their attitude and behavior goes on unchallenged because of Virgin Islanders disunity, lack of courage, lack of national pride, outsourcing their battles to the colonialists, Neville chamberlain style appeasing, affliction with the Stockholm Syndrome, Benedict Arnold behavior, etc. I digress.

    Governor Pruce is da…n lying when he says he has a hands off approach in selecting the next CoP. His plan is as clear as mud , as true as the sun rises in the east, etc. He wants a white Briton to be the next CoP and black experienced and qualified local or regional persons need not apply. Did Pruce not stop the recruitment for selecting qualified applicants when he noticed there was a lack of White Britons was not making the cut. Now, he is engineering another farcical tactics of bringing in white Britons to supposedly support Acting CoP Jacqueline Vanterpool. Is the Guv pissing on us and telling us it raining? Yes. What is the Guv doing ? He is creating employment for white Britons at the VI taxpayers expense. He is crafting language for the next recruitment ad. which only specific white Britons can meet. He is writing the recruiting ad. to target specific white Britons. It is a common practice in recruiting to write the job description in a manner that only a small cadre of people can meet.I’m not speculating, for I have seen it done and have it. Guv Pruce is determined come hell or high water to put a White Briton in the CoP position and Virgin Islanders cannot do s..t about it. He sees BVI people as weak as wet noodles and useless and don’t matter.

    Do Virgin Islanders find it not interesting and distressing that after 300+ years of colonial conquering and colonizing the Virgin Islands have yet have either a Uk-appointed black commissioner, administrator or governor or a woman or another minority? Is this a confidence? The bottom line is that Guv Pruce wants a white Briton for the position. Only Virgin Islanders don’t look out for their own. They deserve what get, being treated like s..t. Damn weaklings, kiss @$$es.
  • Lol UK support (01/02/2025, 03:26) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    How stupendous, Pam will be the cop, what an incompetence ploy. UK support hmmmm, police department will be overrun by whites jacket soon go home. Cop acp dcp all white, take over of the bvi in progress. UK support in disguise. Thereafter new police act enforcement on the political class. They have tried. But failed. Vanterpool not qualified. To be cop. What support rubbish. Strategies at best. All government departments overrun by UK nationals. Keep watching.


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