the force is headed by the Chief Commissioner currently Ramon Arnhem[1] In 1923, the Police Corps consisted of 8 officers and was understaffed.

The police also has a strong cooperation with the Koninklijke Marechaussee stationed on the island, when it comes to human and drug trafficking.

47-year-old Susan McCormick was an American bartender from Hampton Bays, New York who was found dead at a roadside near the Steamboat restaurant with a bullet in her neck and her wallet still on her person.

[6] Officials from the hotel where McCormick had been staying had reportedly told her family that she had died in a car accident.

The police were initially puzzled and refused to publicly discuss the case, but told McCormick's sister Sharon Hoyt that there was no sign of a robbery.

McCormick's brother-in-law Jim Sofranko, who visited the site of the shooting in search of clues, stated, "I don't think they expected the gun to go off.

They were among 85 individuals indicted in the U.S. District Court of Puerto Rico on federal charges of involvement in a Caribbean money laundering ring following an FBI sting called Operation Golden Trash.

There were rumors that a botched police investigation significantly reduced the chances of finding what happened to Natalee and from getting information from the 3 men last seen with her.