We met Senior Superintendent Gillett today as he did his weekly meet and greet - this time in the Neal's Pen Road area. He told us that the community wants to work with police - but in a fashion that puts equity and justice first:...
Sr. Supt. Howell Gillett, OC, Eastern Division South "The number one issue people wanted that the relationship between the police and the community to improve and to do that we have to show the public that we are doing our side of it. The police, we have to minimize the number of cases of abuse, corruption has to go immediately and for the past few weeks we haven't heard anything about corruption coming out of the south side and we are very pleased for that. The police abuse is something that must go away, I know it's something that has been there for a long period of time and to show that we do care just today we have enlisted the support of the fire service and they have cleaned out the cell block. Whatever street name, they used to call the cell block it's much better than how it was prior to taking over Belize City. So it's to show people that yes you may come in contact with the police while being in custody but we want to provide the very best and that in itself sends a message to the public that the police is trying to make a difference."
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We met Senior Superintendent Gillett today as he did his weekly meet and greet - this time in the Neal's Pen Road area. He told us that the community wants to work with police - but in a fashion that puts equity and justice first:...
"The number one issue people wanted that the relationship between the police and the community to improve and to do that we have to show the public that we are doing our side of it. The police, we have to minimize the number of cases of abuse, corruption has to go immediately and for the past few weeks we haven't heard anything about corruption coming out of the south side and we are very pleased for that. The police abuse is something that must go away, I know it's something that has been there for a long period of time and to show that we do care just today we have enlisted the support of the fire service and they have cleaned out the cell block. Whatever street name, they used to call the cell block it's much better than how it was prior to taking over Belize City. So it's to show people that yes you may come in contact with the police while being in custody but we want to provide the very best and that in itself sends a message to the public that the police is trying to make a difference."