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Police Kept The Peace Over Easter
posted (April 23, 2019)
So, those were the three traumatic deaths this weekend. Again, there were no gun murders during the Easter break.

That's an important milestone for citizen security since, these long holiday weekends are usually marred by spike in violence and death.

Today at police headquarters in Belmopan, Police Commissioner Chester Williams applauded his officers who worked harder to keep you safe during the 4-day weekend:

Chester Williams- Commissioner of Police
"Over the weekend we know that Easter time is normally a time where crime goes up due to the huge gathering of persons in different locations. We know that the cayes and Placencia, Hopkins, the areas around the water line have been the most attractive part of the country to persons during the Easter holidays. So, what we did was to ensure that we beefed our presence in those areas utilizing the specialized units with specific instructions in terms of what needs to be done. I must say that applying our crime fighting strategy- the three pillars- was a part of our success. One basically to ensure that we control the consumption of alcohol to some extent and to target persons who are known gang members who we believe may be in different areas with a view to try and perpetrate criminal acts. I must say that we are also tough on quality life offences, particularly going after edged tools because of recent we have had number of murders where edged tools or pointed tools have become the weapon of choice. And so, we were ensuring that we go after persons who are carrying edged tools and have no reason to be carrying them. That coupled with the assistance from the local police officers in these areas was what basically led to our success over the holidays. I will take the opportunity to commend and congratulate all the police officers across the country for the exceedingly good job that they did over the Easter holiday and I cannot recall any year in recent memories where we have had an Easter holiday with no murders across the country. So, for us it is a huge success and we want to see how we can continue to build on what we have built over the holidays to carry on during this week and going into the Agric weekend."

Later on, we'll tell you about police's plan to keep the Agriculture and Trade show safe this weekend.

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