| And while those new recruits are only a drop in a bucket that's hardly half full, technology can serve to provide a presence where there can't be as many boots on the ground.
Coming up in this term of office, the Ministry of Home Affairs is promising a large array of CCTV cameras. The minister says 1,000 of them will be going up:
Kareem Musa, Minister of Home Affairs
"The biggest, splash, so to speak, for this year is going to be the introduction of 1000 CCTV cameras. We already set up here in the Belmopan area here in the Belmopan area - I think when you came into Belmopan, you might have seen them at the roundabouts - we are establishing a headquarters here in Belmopan for the camera room along with BTL. They will be the service providers. And so we're growing, exponentially, I think, by some 400%. And the number of cameras I think currently we have around 200 or so cameras."
"And we just want to grow, in terms of our use of these assets, these tools, like innovation and technology, because we have seen where a bulk of our crimes are solved with cameras, whether it is, these CCTV cameras or private cameras on establishments, they are of great use in solving crimes."
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