| The Strange Case Of The COMPOL Who Wishes He Wasn't Himself |
| Thu, August 13, 2020 |
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And while he's doing his best to keep up morale, Williams is besieged
daily by thousands of text and WhatsApp messages, facebook messages,
phone calls and in person exchanges demanding his attention to security
issues big and small from Corozal to Toledo.
It's the reality of policing during a pandemic when public health and
public safety have fallen jointly into the police department's lap.
Today, the usually indefatigable COMPOL confessed that recently, he's
been wishing, he wasn't him!
Chester Williams - Commissioner of Police
"We cannot just blame the police for everything that occurs. I have been
harping all along that we need to pay very close attention to night clubs.
I saw it as a potential for a mass spread and that was the spirit with
which I was behind night clubs ensuring that there is compliance and as a
society we all have a responsibility. The law is out there and we expect
that every night club owner, every bus operator, every boat operator, every
establishment owner would have taken the responsibility upon themselves to
ensure that their patrons comply by the law and we had that in the law,
before it was not in the law where the establishment owner or operators
would have been held liable, we just manage to get that in the law now. So
with that now, the establishment owner, the boat operator, the boat
operators must ensure that whoever come upon their premises or their boat
or vehicle, that they abide by the law because if they don't abide by the
law, then the establishment owner, the boat operator or the bus operator
will be held liable."
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