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Acting CoP Vanterpool is doing a 'fantastic job’- Gov Pruce
Governor Pruce was the guest on Talking Points on Monday, January 27, 2025, on ZBVI 780 AM, where he highlighted his priority areas for 2025.
“Security is really going to be the priority for me,” Governor Pruce said.
Co-host Damion C. Grange asked the Governor, “I know we have two local acting commissioners, are they part of the consideration for appointment, or are we still considering going outside for the appointment of Commissioner of Police?”
Governor Pruce said while the recruitment process for a new CoP began last year, 2024, it had to be stopped.
While unable to say if Vanterpool will be considered for the job permanently upon resuming recruitment for a CoP, Governor Pruce said the successful candidate 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.
“That wasn’t what we had asked for when we started the recruitment competition,” he explained.
Vanterpool is doing a ‘fantastic job’- Governor Pruce
Governor Pruce said he is working closely with Vanterpool who he thinks is doing a “fantastic job”.
“I have every confidence that she will manage and lead the police through this transition very successfully,” he said continuing, “In any big organisation when you have change at the top, it has an impact on the organisation, so that’s an additional challenge.”
RVIPF to undergo a transition- Governor Pruce
The position of CoP became vacant following the retirement and end of the contract of former CoP and United Kingdom (UK) national, Mark Collins on November 30, 2024, whose tenure was controversial.
The search for a new CoP, according to the Governor, was halted following the receipt of the first volume of the Law Enforcement Review by His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary, Fire and Rescue Services
Governor Pruce said that, based on the recommendations in the review and the pending second volume of the Law Enforcement Review, the search for a new CoP was postponed.
He explained that before receiving the first volume of the review, the way the role of CoP was defined the right fit for the job may not have been found.
“The scope and depth of the recommendations in that report were going to be even farther reaching that what we have in volume one…what I am expecting is a report that’s going to form the basis of a program of change across the law enforcement sector that will take year, maybe a decade,” he told the Talking Points co-hosts.
He said following receipt of the second volume of the review, the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF) will be going through a transition.
“We’ll be recruiting a new commissioner, so there’ll be change at the top,” the Governor said.
There have also been concerns that the Governor is looking to recruit another UK national for the job instead of hiring a Virgin Islander like Vanterpool.
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18 Responses to “Acting CoP Vanterpool is doing a 'fantastic job’- Gov Pruce”
Keep up the good work, Acting COP Vanterpool! We are proud of you!
Pruce playing games if he put a white man there then we will march
Plus Pam got to go she is another rac***
Governor stop being a hyprocrite.
"Transformational changes".
I find this governor full of sh** cannot be trusted