The other major issue for the public is corruption in the police department - recently demonstrated by police officers charged for active involvement in the landing of narco-planes.
But, with only two officers criminally charged in a vast web of corruption and facilitation of narcotics shipment - the police have to do more to win back public confidence. Williams says that without evidence there is only so much that can be done:
Reporter
"One of the biggest issues we are also seeing is the corruption of cops. We have these rogue officers allegedly involved in these drug plane landings and all of that. How do you address these officers -take them out of the system? Because that continues to give the police department a black eye."
Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police
"We are a department that hires human beings and the human beings we hire are not sent from God up in heaven. They are taken from within society and so they are amenable these sort of things. I can assure you that under this administration police corruption, police brutality will be an absolutely no no. If we want to be able to win the support of the public and if you want to be able t get the consent of the public, then we have to police in such a way that the public is going to accept and where the public is going to respect and trust us."
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