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What Next After 30 Days?
posted (September 13, 2018)

So fast forward to after the lockdown period..what happens after all the men have been released ? Well, Williams says it doesn’t end there. Police will continue to investigate and more than likely re-arrest some of these men and charge them. Here is how Williams put it.

Courtney Weatherburne
“What happens after the 30 day lockdown and as you said, if needs be you will extend this period as well, but many people are wondering what will happen next, is there a plan in place after these men are released?”

DCP Chester Williams - Commander OPS
“Well as I have said before within the first 30 days, we will be looking at the investigations in respect to the offenses listed in the notice they got. If it is that we come up with evidence that will be sufficient to charge for any of the named offenses then we are going to do that. Another offense we are looking at is the gang membership offense and other offenses related to the gang legislation so, more than likely some of them will be charged under the gang legislation and if we can get evidence against them in respect to the criminal offenses then we are also going to charge forthat.”

I guess we will be monitoring how things go from here and we will be in dialogue with our minister and our ministry and when the one month period is up then we will decide exactly what course we will take to be able to ensure we can continue to maintain some semblance of peace in BelizeCity.”

As Williams has said, under the law, this lock down period can be extended to as long as 12 months.

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