Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police
"We do have a home of a police officer who is assigned to the Corozal QRT that was shot at sometime last week. Again we take this very seriously. We have a basic idea who are those persons behind it. Police have been going after these individuals and contrary to what I saw on social media, and again I want to day to the Belizean people that we cannot be insensitive to issues, especially where the potential loss of life existed. We can't be too harsh on the police officers who are out there everyday making sure you are safe. I saw some of the comments where people were saying, that good for the police, the police are chancey, the police are this, the police are that. Those comments are very disgusting. At the end of the day, we cannot live in a society where the police is not respected because if the criminals don't respect the police, then how do you expect as an ordinary citizens, the criminals are going to respect you? We have to be careful what we promote and what we encourage. Again, the police officer in question whose house was shot up, he's an extremely hardworking police and I can say a very decent one as well. You don't hear his name out there involved in any criminal activities but certainly he goes after the criminals and perhaps that's the reason why he was targeted because he's extremely tough on those persons in the Corozal district who are hellbent on committing crimes so this is an officer who is out there everyday doing his best, going above and beyond ensuring the safety of people of Corozal Town and I think that he ought to be commended and in a time like this, where we saw that he was targeted, we need to sympathize with him and at the same time extend whatever support we can to make him feel comfortable in continuing to discharge his duties as a police officer."