Immigration Vehicles Attacked; Police deny Political interference

Providenciales, TCI, December 12, 2016 – Police are investigating the damage over the weekend to two Immigration Department vehicles.  Magnetic Media was today informed of the vandalism which happened first on Saturday night, then on Sunday night.  One Immigration Department employee believes the damages are retaliation for them doing their jobs, especially in the Snake Hill area of Blue Hills.

Police today also issued clarification in a media release in the hopes of ending rumors about those joint operations engineered to flush out illegal migrants.

“The Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force (RTCIPF) have recently become aware of rumors circulating within the Blue Hills area of Providenciales, that recent policing operations in and around Snake Hill were being conducted at the request of local political party.

RTCIPF can categorically state that this is not the case and that recent operations in that area were intelligence led and carried out and authorized through an appropriate tasking and coordinating process that does not involve anyone from any political party.”

Police Commissioner James Smith stated that, “the RTCIPF have operational independence and are not affiliated to any political party, in addition all operational decisions are made based upon current intelligence and all subsequent operations are duly authorized solely by a senior member of the RTCIPF.”

Both Immigration vehicles were parked at the Sam Harvey Building, down town Provo.