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April 4th, 2016
UPDATE: Under pressure Operation Lucan charges 3 RVIPF officers

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Following criticisms from the public and media over its failure to produce any results after nearly two years in existence while hundreds of thousands of taxpayers monies were being spent, Operation Lucan today, Monday April 4, 2016 announced that its detectives had arrested three men and charged them with various criminal offences.

April 1st, 2016
UPDATE: Body of female discovered @ Hawk’s Nest yet to be identified

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – The decomposing body recovered by police on March 30, 2016 at Hawk’s Nest on the eastern end of Tortola is yet to be identified, although police say they have been in communication with the family of Nickera Smith who has been missing since January 27, 2016.

March 29th, 2016
Bandits rob couple @ Lower Hope Hill

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Police are investigating an aggravated burglary at the home of a couple in the Lower Hope Hill area early yesterday morning, March 28, 2016.

March 18th, 2016
Man robbed at gunpoint in Great Mountain home

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI– Police are investigating a home invasion yesterday afternoon, March 17, 2016 at a residence in the Great Mountain Road.

March 12th, 2016
Nickera Smith still missing after 6 weeks

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI– The Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF) gathered over 40 volunteers at the Red Cross building and other civic organisations early this morning, March 12, 2016 to conduct an extensive search for missing 22-year-old Nickera Smith.

March 3rd, 2016
UPDATE: Carlos Gumbs pleads guilty to firearm possession; remanded

PROSPECT REEF, Tortola, VI – Carlos Gumbs of Cane Garden Bay, Tortola pleaded guilty before the Magistrate’s Court this morning March 3, 2016 to the charge of keeping a firearm without a licence and was remanded.

March 1st, 2016
'Culture of disrespect’ has taken firm root in VI society- Alwin James

EAST END, Tortola, VI – While the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF) has reported a reduction in certain types of crime for 2015, it has noted with alarm the amount of reports of serious assaults, drawing the conclusion that we are seemingly no longer our brother’s keeper.

February 22nd, 2016
Police Week 2016 to kick off Saturday February 27, 2016

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI– The Royal Virgin Islands Police Force will kick off its 49th year celebration of Police Week on Saturday February 27, 2016 at the East End Seventh-day Adventist Church.

February 22nd, 2016
Relatives of Clyde D. Lloyd Jr accuse RVIPF of giving them 'the runaround'

SEA COWS BAY, Tortola, VI – The mother of Clyde D. Lloyd Jr., Yvette Todman, as well as an aunt of the young man, have spoken out against the treatment they received at the hands of the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF) when they went there first to report the young man missing and then to inquire about arrangements for getting his body from St Thomas, USVI to Tortola after sadly learning of his possible demise at sea.

February 18th, 2016
Man accused of robbing Scotiabank St Maarten surrenders to VI police

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Information reaching Virgin Islands News Online is that ranks of the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF) have detained a man accused of robbing a bank on St Maarten.

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