Belize's population grew by about 40 thousand persons since 2016, but you would probably be surprised to know we still have the same number of police officers that we did almost 10 years ago.
In 2020 the PUP was elected on a promise to increase the number of police officers to 4000, but due to attrition in the ranks, they have gotten nowhere with that pledge and there are still 2600 police officers, the same as 9 years ago. We asked the police minister about it earlier this week.
Kareem Musa, Minister of Home Affairs
"I think we are reaching close to the levels we were at in 2015, 2016, around 2600 officers. We did have a lot of attrition over the last, early on five years ago, but we are now growing those numbers."
"We have a recruit squad that will be graduating sometime sometime in June of this year, and then we can look forward after that to maybe enlisting additional officers."
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