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Police Take Guns Off The Street
posted (June 24, 2016)
5 more guns are off city streets. For this entire week the police have been patrolling and searching hot spots on the Southside, and today Commander Chester Williams held sort of a showcase of these seizures at his Raccoon Street office. Williams told us more about the weeklong operation and its impact on crime control.

ACP Chester Williams- O. C., Eastern South Division
"We have 5 firearms; 3 - 9mm pistols, 1 - 380 and 1- .38 special revolver and these firearms are the product of the hard work of the police officers on the Southside Belize City between precinct 1, 2, the Strike Team and Special Branch working in collaboration to be able to remove as much firearms as we can from off the streets of Belize city. All of them are found properties and they are a result of the police searches in different areas, known hotspots in Belize City. We have two that was found in the St. Martin's area near Flamboyant Street; we have one that was found on Euphrates Avenue, which is the .380 revolver; we have these two that were found on Mahogany Street in the Precinct 1 area. So it's a good catch for the police and these were all retrieve this week. So for this week between Monday and today, we have retrieve a total of 5 firearms off the streets."

"These operations are very critical to our day to day policing of Southside Belize City. We know that Southside is gang ridden and it's an area where the issue of gun violence have become prevalent and the more guns removed off the streets, the better it is, the more safer the community will be and so as a part of our daily routines as you have always heard me say before, that we have a dual approach to the fight against crime. We have the community policing aspect, which is the soft wide and we have the operational aspect that goes out on a daily basis, searching homes and searching bases and targeting those persons who we know are involved in criminal activities and these firearms are the result of those operations."

As you heard these guns were found in several areas on the Southside. Now taking these guns off the street is only one aspect of the operations, these guns will be tested to see if they were used in any crime and if they were reported stolen. Pictures of these guns are posted on the police facebook page "One Less Gun" so the public can be aware of these operations.

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