Crime

Long-Time Project Safe Neighborhoods Facilitators Represent USVI At National Conference

Three seasoned Virgin Islands Police Department (VIPD) officers and U.S Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert represented the territory at last week’s Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) National Conference in Kansas City, Missouri, a release the U.S. Attorney's Office issued Monday has made known. The conference brought together federal prosecutors and their law enforcement partners from across the nation and included speeches by President Donald Trump, Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, and former Attorney General John Ashcroft, according to the release. The PSN Conference was the first of its kind in eight years and underscores the commitment of the Department of Justice to reducing violent crime and fostering public safety for all Americans. Beginning in 2017, all 93 United States Attorneys were directed to implement enhanced violent crime reduction programs that incorporate the lessons learned since the original PSN program launch in 2001...