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Deputy Compol Segura Acquitted, Can He Make A Police Comeback
posted (February 13, 2020)

Turning now to police matters, Deputy Commissioner of Police Miguel Segura was acquitted today in the Belmopan Supreme Court. Â His trial for various traffic offences resulting from the death of a 54 year-old woman, and the serious injury of her taxi driver in a 2014 accident, started last week before Justice Cumberbatch.

Segura has settled a civil lawsuit but the criminal case has been ongoing.  But today, his attorney Ellis Arnold made a no case submission which was upheld by Justice Cumberbatch. So with that, Segura has been cleared of criminal wrongdoing. We asked the commissioner what this means for the senior command of the police department:

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