As we mentioned earlier in the news, ACP Chester Williams will be vacating his position as Officer Commander of the Eastern Division - South, and moving over to Belmopan to take charge of the Professional Standards Branch. Today, Williams participated in his last community meet and greet. We have covered dozens of these on the news, and today in the Jane Usher area; we spoke to Williams about his final week in the neighbourhoods of the Southside: 

ACP Chester Williams - OC, Southside Police
"Indeed it is my final meet and greet as the officer commanding eastern division south and the feedback from the people that we have encountered for today has been positive in the sense that they are saying they are happy for the policing in the area, the patrols are visible, every so often they see the patrols pass by. Some of them are saying that they wish it was not my last, that is expected (laugh) right and I could understand where they are coming from but the time has come for me to move on and I am preparing to make my way to Belmopan as of Monday of next week."

Reporter
"Now sir what have you been telling the residence as you had said, some of them are expressing some kind of dismay because you're leaving but what kind of assurances are you giving them that you're replacement Mr. Vidal will keep in place some of these programmes that you and the community policing unit have started on the Southside?"

ACP Chester Williams
"Well my thing to them is to remain optimistic. I have said before and I'll say again that I do believe that Mr. Vidal will do good. He's an exceptional officer as well and I believe that he will continue some of the programmes; I'm not sure about all but some of them. He is his own man and I'm sure he will assess the situation on the ground and make a determination from there as to what programmes to keep, what to not keep or what to enhance or whatever the case may be. So my thing to them is to remain optimistic and let's see what happens."