Crime

V.I.P.D. Conducting Three Separate Investigations Into Shooting Incident That Left Detective Wounded By Friendly Fire

ST. CROIX -- A friendly fire incident on Thursday night that ended with Detective Moses President being injured by gunfire from another police officer while responding to a brandishing of weapon occurrence at the Frontline Bar in Calquhoun, is being investigated by three separate arms within the V.I.P.D., Police Commissioner Delroy Richards told The Consortium this morning. The commissioner said the investigation is part of normal protocol, and its results will be forwarded to consent decree monitors for their evaluation. "It's nothing new. Since we are under a consent decree, when we have a level 1 use of force, we have a trained team of individuals called the Force Investigation Team, they will automatically be dispatched to [investigate]," Mr. Richards said, explaining level 1 use of force to be any incident that includes shots being fired or when someone gets seriously injured. Under the consent decree, which was levied against the V.I.P.D. by the federal government in 2008 fo...