The Commissioner of Police is in the north on a two day tour following the murder of two Belizeans in Chetumal. These Belizeans - Aaron Tunn and Michael Whittaker - were found bound and taped up with a warning written on a sign next to them. And cops believe there was another Belizean who escaped the killers and jumped the border into Belize. So the ComPol was in Corozal observing the illegal border crossings, which he says are a problem they need to address urgently.
Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police
"Myself accompanied by commander operations Mr Grinage, the other regional commander Mr Noble and the unit commanders Mr Gamboa and Mr Mejia, we went and did a tour of the irregular border crossing areas, the areas that are within the northern operations area of responsibility and the purpose is just to make sure that our team on the ground is prepared and doing what need to be done to be able to ward away those persons from across the border who may want to come into Belize and operate and you'd know that over the past few days we have seen an increase in cartel activities across neighboring Chetumal and so we want to make sure that those persons from that area do not come over to Belize and seek refuge so we're making sure that we look at our plans that we have in place and if there's a need to tweak it to make it more effective then that is what we are doing."
"There seems to be a lot of movements of Belizeans going over the Mexican side via the irregular border crossings. I think that is something we need to address, particularly in the Botes area. We need to see what we can do to eliminate that. We would know that most of the activities the take place in that area are motivated by the cartels so that's one issue we have to address. In terms of the officers' preparedness, I'm happy to say they're equipped. Thanks to the government, we have received a number of equipment for them to be able to execute their duties, including vehicles, weaponry, body armors, etc, they have those things, drones. So in terms of equipment, they're ready. They seem to be quite motivated and prepared for the task."
Williams said that they haven't received an update on the investigation from their Mexican counterparts as yet.
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