| Narcos Driving Crime? |
| Thu, January 9, 2025 |
| We also asked the commissioner about the influence of narcos on the country’s overall crime climate... |
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We also asked the commissioner about the influence of narcos on the country's overall crime climate:…
Reporter:
"But are you concerned that in the coming year, the heavy influence of the narcotics trade and the cartels feeding everything north will have a bearing on crime in Belize?"
Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police
"That's the reason why we have in place and not in operations and not in operations have not become a permanent feature of our policing policing strategy for the North."
"And so, even in our budget that we submitted for 2025, 2026, it includes the northern operations storm, remain in place. And certainly we have to be concerned. Narcotics is an issue not just in Belize but across the region. And when it comes into our country, people try as best as they can to get it."
"For whatever reasons, I guess it's because they believe that it's a good sell. And so once people know you have drugs, you become a target. And that is something that we're seeing. We have we saw in 2024, and we need to ensure that we do as best as we can to not have those incidents in 2025."
"And so one of my briefing to my commanders this morning in terms of where we are for 2025 it's to make sure that we are extremely proactive in what we do, in terms of addressing crime. We cannot be reactive. Policing is about preserving order and, as a department working to our partners will do as best as we can to be proactive in ensuring that we stem these things from occurring." |
