| COMPSTAT- Compol's Big Show |
| Fri, October 4, 2024 |
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But 71 murders in 9 months is cause for celebration - each one of those numbers represents a family left to grieve. And today at the National Compstat Meeting, the ComPol gave a special presentation. He explained that as we enter into the fourth quarter of the year, he's ramping up crime fighting strategies so that this year's murder count can be lower than last year's.
Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police
"I put together a presentation, an overall presentation where I outlined to the officers where we are so far for this year, where we have been at the end of each quarter of the year, outlined to them how we got to where we are and also told them in my presentation what I want us to do collectively together for the rest of the year so that we will be able to defeat the numbers for last year. I am extremely passionate about what I do, saving lives of Belizeans is important to me and as I said to them, we finished the month of September with three murders above last year's figures around the same time. My objective is for us to work our butts off for the rest of this year to defeat the number for last year which was 87 so in other words, we are at 71 murders right now, that puts us at 16 below last year's figure. I'm pleading to my commanders for us to work together in order for us to defeat that 16 so that we can end up with either 87 or less murders. I also outlined to them strategies that I want us to do to be able to ensure that we will be able to defeat the numbers.So it's not like I am presenting the numbers because I want to come with my own figures, and the numbers that I presented were the same numbers that we get from JICC and Compstat. It's not like I came up with my own numbers out of my own head. And again, each commander will still do their regional presentation and their regional presentation is going to have the numbers per region as we normally have during Compstat. I simply did a presentation today because it is important for me at this stage to make sure that we work collectively as a team with the public so that we will be able to defeat the numbers for last year."
"We need to be more proactive in terms of our approach, we don't want to respond I even said to them that if it is they hear there is an issue brewing between two different gang groups, we must step in, do intervention, get LIU involved, get Mr Nuri involved, let's see how we can stem that before it reaches a stage where somebody gets killed because once somebody gets killed the problem becomes greater because the other side will want to retaliate, we must do what we can to avoid getting to that stage."
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