VI visitors will not escape police stop & search - Premier Fahie
He was specifically referring to visitors who come to enjoy the territory as a world-class sailing destination, over complaints about police stop and search.
“I was going home one night last year and there was a stop and search, and they didn’t see it was the Premier’s jeep and they stopped the Premier’s jeep so if they stop me, what is a yacht in the harbour to stop?” he said at the press conference held on December 10, 2021.
“You just cannot create a two-tiered system when it comes to the law!... What do you want law enforcement agencies to do? We have to be able to come to grips that we have wide-open water around us with over 60 islands and islets and while we want to have persons come to the BVI and to feel welcome, we also have to police the waters to make sure that they are safe and even those very persons that have those concerns are safe,” he said.
Concerns will be addressed - Premier
Premier Fahie stated that the concerns plaguing that sector will be addressed, “I understand the concerns that some of them have brought forward, we are going to have some symposiums with all the law enforcement agencies and the VI Shipping Registry so we can see how we further ventilate those concerns.”
He further stressed that there has to be a balance because the law enforcers have their role to play and “Yes, they are visitors and, but they are not exempted from the law.”
“If they are doing random spot checks at sea that has to be respected because they do random spot checks for the locals when they are at sea.”
Hon Fahie further said, “So, if you are a visitor and someone does a random spot check, we have to do this because we don’t know where firearms are, you don’t know where drugs are! You cannot just say they are visitors so they are criminal-minded free.”
Many are coming in too - Premier
Responding to talk that many in that sector are leaving the VI, Premier Fahie said, “I always say we have to name the problem and not say who leaving and who coming because from where I sit a lot more persons have requested licenses and also other resources that they have asked for to come in.”
He said the law enforcers are trying to tighten up areas that the ‘Triple I Code’ audit flagged and the VI is trying their best to maintain a Category One Shipping that it has currently.
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38 Responses to “VI visitors will not escape police stop & search - Premier Fahie”
Imagine you were in a foreign country and someone banging on your hotel door with guns and dogs ....
A gentle stop and question, no problem.
Who wants to break us? Tell me that? Go on. Who wants to break down the BVIslander? And why?
Who said this poster thinks raids is ok in other countries but not here? The poster didn't.
In fact the poster said they understand stop and search happens all over but it doesn't have to be done in a heavy handed threatening way. You call it a raid, like them guilty before they even searched. Stop and search is not the same as raiding a suspected criminal because you have evidence of crime. That has to be heavy handed, but not stop and search.
You completely ignore this persons point.
And jump on them like you have some kind of insecurity sickness about us - anything we do is always right? Anything them white people say is always wrong?
It's this that gets us all a reputation - for being simple minded and arrogant.
Its you who bringing us all down with your low grade use of the brain God gave you.
And your post talking about negativity? Jesus Lord help us!
“I was going home one night last year and there was a stop and search, and they didn’t see it was the Premier’s jeep and they stopped the Premier’s jeep so if they stop me.
we do not make guns in this territory so we should search boats and planes, law and order is a must
we can not bring back the old time tranquility but this gun thing is dangerous it left unchecked innocent people will die
i cant see popo good to willy T to search they will wait until they leave willy T to search
most black use weed but white folks use the nose candy which unlike the bush does not give off an attractive order(time u light up the high grade it causes some much excitement: the white powder is a private drug and lots of dem up in this territory using that product
as a matter of fact an attorney of law arrived in road town few months ago and within hours of his arrival was arrested for using cocane in the village cay areas now cocane is not sold over the counter how get from your friends
i challenge u
call the hot line and inform on a black person see who swiftly babylon shows up
it take forever for them to respond to the same call when the report is about mr green eyes
babylon in his private villa or private boat
I have been stopped while sailing in Canada, the US and other places. All they want to do is ensure you are not smuggling etc. If you have nothing to hide, then you have nothing to worry about.
Seriously you can’t even put it to automatic and fire it at a criminal with pedestrians around nearly every scene.
what’s the point then when it’s obvious the hand gun & tazer is more appropriate in nearly every public situation.
Those assault rifles are for at sea chase or on a battlefield.... where there is a need for them.
It’s not right to senselessly -just like the criminals- to be scaring people and making our atmosphere unbearably uncomfortable!
I prefer the police to keep their small arm holstered not trying to search people with a assault rifle.
Nor walking around town with machine guns or Christmas on mainstreet. Where the hell will you fire it in town or on Christmas on mainstreet?!
You can’t even aim it without knocking someone down by mistake or hitting them a elbow. WTF
Police need to take a hard look at how they portray themselves & how their spending our money because they’re looking more shady and untrustworthy than the criminals.
Keep that ‘snow’ flowing!