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Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police
"Well the thing is that it is a matter of making sure that we have proper command and control, I took command of the operations and guided what the police is going to do, liaising with different counterparts looking at the US Embassy the Belize airport authority, the BDF even the CEO in the Prime Minister's Office Ms Narda Garcia, My Minister I kept in constant dialogue with him briefing in terms of what we were doing and what was happening and again it's to ensure we are all in sync in terms of what we do when we have these incidents, at the end of the day one slip can cause mayhem so we have to ensure that whatever we do is done with the intent to create good and achieve good and I believe that all the different agencies involved in this operation today did, and executed their functions properly and that's the reason why we had the results we have and I can't forget the pilot. The pilot for that plane I must say that he did an exceptional job even in terms of his communication with the tower as this was unfolding he remained calm and he was extremely focused in terms of what he was going to do. Had he panicked it could have had a different outcome so again the pilot was very instrumental for the outcome that we had and so I must ensure that we give him the credit that he deserves."

The incoming Commissioner, Dr Richard Rosado, was also at the PGIA and involved in the process.