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Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police
"I first went to Paraguay, attended the International Police Cooperation Conference which was hosted by Taiwan. At that conference, we had various discussions on regional security and common trends in policing, including looking at the whole issue of cybercrime and cybersecurity. Important from that meeting is that we were able to secure a number of training for police officers to go to Taiwan and train in different areas of policing. You would know that the public and even the media houses always been on the police saying we need more training and so whenever I go out to these conferences I would normally do my best to lobby for training for our officers and we have been able to get a number of those trainings. after Paraguay I flew to the Bahamas where I attended the 26th Interpol conference of the Americas. That was extremely good."

"I did a presentation on regional cooperation at that conference. That was well received by the members of the conference and as you would know I wear three hats, as the Commissioner of Police for Belize and then as the President of the Commission for the Chiefs and Directors of Police for Central America, Mexico, Colombia and the Caribbean. And as well as the first Vice President of the ACCP. So I was there in three capacities because the president of ACCP could not attend so I was representing him at that meeting likewise. Again, I had a bilateral meeting with the president of Interpol who happens to be chief of police in Dubai, prior to his election as the president of Interpol and from that bilateral meeting, I was also able to secure a number of trainings for police in Dubai, ranging from junior middle and senior management trainings for officers, there is also a proposal for myself and perhaps the Minister to go to Dubai and look at the smart system that is used in Dubai as a part of the crime fighting strategy to see how we can perhaps replicate that in Belize."