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March 9th, 2021
Tenant stumbles upon loaded firearm @ Josiah's Bay

JOSIAH'S BAY, Tortola, VI- The Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF) is said to be investigating the discovery of a loaded firearm by a tenant of a property in Josiah's Bay.

March 9th, 2021
Thieves continue to target tools left unsecured- RVIPF

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – The Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF) is reporting a spike in theft of tools for a second week in a row and is urging the public to place added security around these items.

March 9th, 2021
RVIPF launches new ‘crime mapping capability’ in VI

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – The Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF) on Monday, March 8, 2021, launched a Geographic Information computer-based mapping tool developed in partnership with Town and Country Planning that it says will allow the force to map crime in the Virgin Islands (VI).

March 8th, 2021
UPDATE: Dwight Callwood & Pia King charged for gun find @ Butu Mountain

BUTU MOUNTAIN, Tortola, VI- Police have released the names of the two persons charged after a loaded firearm was found at a home in Butu Mountain, on Tortola, on March 5, 2021.

March 8th, 2021
Paul Hodge charged in relation to CGB cocaine bust

CANE GARDEN BAY, Tortola, VI – The male taken into custody after officers uncovered over 500 kilograms of cocaine in his taxi in Cane Garden Bay on Saturday, March 6, 2021, has been charged.

March 7th, 2021
Police execute major cocaine bust in CGB; 1 arrested

CANE GARDEN BAY, Tortola, VI- Police have conducted a major cocaine bust in Cane Garden Bay, on the main island of Tortola. One person has been taken into custody.

February 27th, 2021
Police shut down all-day brunch for breaking COVID-19 rules

WEST END, Tortola, VI - Officers at the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF) have today, February 27, 2021, shut down a crowded brunch event on the Western End of Tortola, after it was found that the event breached COVID-19 restrictions.

February 24th, 2021
Long Trench woman charged for being armed with offensive weapon, assault

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- A woman from Long Trench was among the persons arrested and charged during the period February 7 to February 2021, after she was allegedly armed with an offensive weapon, according to the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF) Arrest Blotter.

February 20th, 2021
UPDATE: Floating body is Lebanese native Walid Kashour

SEA COWS BAY, Tortola, VI – Lebanese native Walid Kashour, 40, has been identified as the territory’s latest homicide victim after his body was discovered yesterday, February 19, 2021, floating in the waters by Sea Cows Bay.

February 19th, 2021
Police & Customs bosses first to receive COVID jabs for law enforcement

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI– Commissioner of Police (CoP) Michael B. Matthews and Comptroller of Customs Wade N. Smith led the way for their charges by being first in line to take the first dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine at Police Headquarters in Road Town on February 18, 2021.

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