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The Commissioner also discussed his department's budgetary exercise, which is ongoing. The police budget seems to expand annually - along with the country's security needs - which are dynamic.
The commissioner outlined some of those area of expanded operations which may have started out as operations but ended up as status quo:
Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police
"Certainly we are in the process of preparing our budget I think we have completed the process and I have said to my FO's and my commanders that we must ensure that the budget reflects what we need. If it is that what we submitted is not approved which happens every year we don't normally get what we submitted then we would be in a position down the road to say to the ministry of finance when we had applied in our budget for this but we didn't get it and we need it and certainly they are going to find a way to get it for us. We have in our policing plans for 2025 we have a number of operations that we want to carry out we also have the northern operations which now becomes a permanent feature which becomes a routine policing efforts and again you would know that northern operations are being financed through supplementary budgets. We don't want next year we have to do supplementary budgets for the northern operations we want that imbedded into our recurrent budget so with the northern operations and then local operations we have to do to address the crime issue. The increase in police officers and the increase in police stations because we have police stations now in Santa Elena which was not before. We have another in Dangriga we are going to open one in Kontiki we are opening one in Orange walk trial farm so with these new decentralized locations for police it will certainly call for more money and so those are going to be reflected into our budget. Likewise our fleets some of our vehicles are already dilapidated and needs to be changed so we have also included in our budget monies to be able to purchase vehicles in next financial year."
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