But while tomorrow may be calm in Belize City, up in the north and right across the border, there's been an increase in cartel activity.
And what's worse is that the police are currently seeking a cop who is a suspect in the recent Raheem Usher murder.
The ComPol added that they will not tolerate any officer's involvement with the cartels.
Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police
"I'm not going to say much on this because I have put together a team to investigate that whole issue in the north, not just the civilians but also the police officers who we're getting information of that were involved. I have said this before and I'm going to say it again. The Belize Police Department is not going to shield no police officer who gets entangled with cartels. If you get entangled with cartels the best I can do for you is to second you to Chetumal where you can work with them but I will not allow for police officers to be entangled with cartels and be working with other police officers who are not involved and when the cartel comes for them, they end up injuring innocent police officers, it is extremely risky and so I have said that what we need to do is to investigate, identify those police officers and I don't think transferring them is going to be helpful. If we transfer them, they move to other areas and they recruit more police officers so they will in essence be contaminating more police officers so my thing is that we identify them and we get rid of them. You can't be cartel and be police at the same time, you have to decide what you're going to be, you can only be one. So you either decide to be cartel or you decide to be police. The fact that they have decided to be cartels, there's no room for them to be police officers. We have to part ways and that's the bottom line."
Jules Vasquez:
"Now with this police officer that is being sought what is the status on him?"
Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police
"I am told that he's going to surrender himself today and so we'll wait and see how that goes."
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