| Senior Officers Sent Out On Patrol |
| Wed, October 18, 2017 |
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You only need to watch the news nightly and you will know that in the last three months, murders and violent crime have spiraled out of control. The Police Senior command is scrambling for answers - especially in Belize City where there have been 24 murders since July - and 7 recorded just this month alone.
And one novel approach started on Monday of this week where senior police officers - meaning the Inspectors, Assistant Superintendents and even Superintendents have been deployed on regular mobile patrols. That means you'll see the men in brown - reportedly as many as a dozen of them - out on duty in patrol vehicles in the various Belize City sectors. And they have to do so on 12 hour shifts just like regular cops, working from 7:00 am to 7:00 pm, and 7:00 pm to 7:00 am.
As we understand it, the directive from the Senior Command is that these senior officers are now supposed to provide better real time supervision for the junior officers - since that is now being blamed as one of the causes for the murderous crime wave in the city.
We're told the officers are none too pleased about it, some feel that it is a disrespect meant to humiliate them. The new system went into effect on Monday, so it's too early to judge if it will reduce crime.
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