Supt. Chester Williams - OC, Eastern Division South
"It's a continuation of our back to school drive. We had the one last week in the Jane Usher Boulevard area and now we are doing one for the Mayflower area. Today we will be giving out a total of 100 bags to the children of this area and again like I have said before we try to reach out to the younger generation as well and not only to those who are already caught up in the criminal justice system. So it's just a good gesture from the police to give back to the community and show the community that you know we are serious about working with you. What we did, we saw the need to assist these people in this area and the police officers from south side Belize City each contributed one exercise book. Some give two. Some give three. Then pencils, pens, rulers - so the police officers basically donated the exercise books, pencils and pens. And we seek assistance from the cooperate citizens and we got some bags from Mr. Deon Leslie, who assisted us with some. We have the Minister of Education Patrick Faber who gave us 25 bags and again Mr. Faber is the area rep for the Mayflower are which falls in Collet division. So he also contributed to this endeavor and we have Lamb's Funeral Parlour who also came in and gave us something and Mendoza's. So there are a lot people out there who were willing to assist us in fulfilling this obligation to give back to the community."

Reporter
"Sir, how is this going to help with the crime situation? We know yes, that for some time now the city has been relatively quiet, but is it really the fruits of this labour that you guys have put in place?"

Supt. Chester Williams - OC, Eastern Division South
"I would want to think that the efforts that we are doing community policing wise is contributing significantly to the reduction in crime on south side Belize City. We do not expect that our efforts will deter all crimes from occurring, but if we can stop one or two or three or four crimes from occurring, then it is a plus. So I will not take credit for the reduction in crime. I will give credit to the several factors; the efforts of myself, my senior manager management team, Mr. Chi in Precinct 1 and Ms. Moody over at Precinct 2, my deputy Mr. Dawson and most importantly the foot soldiers, the police officers who hit the pavement on a daily basis either doing foot patrols, bicycle patrols, motorcycle and vehicular patrols in the various hotspots in Belize City, trying to see what they can do to curb the situation and I also give credit to the young men who were involved in the different gang feuds who I must say up to now have been listening to what we are saying to them and some of them are buying into the option that you know what living a life of crime will not put you anywhere, but if you can work with the police then it will ease some pressure off you. But I think that it is now paying dividend to our policing efforts on south side Belize City."