Closer to the general elections, on July 21, 2023, DPP Daasrean Greene also disclosed that his office did not have sufficient evidence to prosecute any police officer involved in the Operation Restore Confidence killings; and that investigations remain ongoing. Two years later, Allen Chastanet - now Opposition Leader - has altered course, calling on the current Pierre Administration to resolve the ORC/IMPACS controversy.

“The Prime Minister (Philip J. Pierre) said he doesn’t know how IMPACS became his cross, that this is not, and I quote “his baby”. This is the same person who was deputy leader of opposition when ORC came in. They’re the ones who made the allegations that the police were deliberately killing people,” Chastanet said during an October 24, 2023 press conference.

Chastanet says the suggestion that the IMPACS ordeal was put to rest by his administration is false. “When the Prime Minister [said] that IMPACS ought to have been resolved totally by my administration when we were in government for 5 years, [he] is blatantly lying.”

On a recalled occasion on July 5, 2021, during Chastanet’s (then Prime Minister) address to the nation, he alluded to his administration’s resolution of the IMPACS saga. This statement came just over a month prior to the July 26 general election date. At the time, Chastanet attributed IMPACS’s resolution to the suspension of Leahy Law sanctions on Saint Lucia.

“I know the entire island celebrated with us two weeks ago when our negotiations with the US ended with the resolution of the IMPACS affair, which has hovered over our country like a dark cloud for the past decade,” Chastanet said in his address to the nation.

Two weeks prior to that address, on June 17, 2021, the United States eased the position it took against the Royal Saint Lucia Police Force back in 2013 for alleged human rights violations. US Ambassador to Saint Lucia, Hon. Linda Taglialatela had announced the resumption of assistance to the marine unit, and other select units of the RSLPF.