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Castro Says Rural Cops Need Motorbikes
posted (September 11, 2012)
We've told you about the problems in Crooked Tree, a larger village where there is no police presence because the station burned down some time ago.

Well now there is one - and he has a motorbike to get around.

Cycles were assigned to three rural police today - by the area representative through the Ministry of National security. He explained that they will be deployed to Sandhill, Crooked Tree and Bermudian Landing..

Hon. Edmund Castro
"Areas such as Crooked Tree - there is no police station in Crooked Tree, the station got burnt down. What we experience over the years is that some of the youngsters are getting out of hand or people would go into the community and create mischief because there was lack of police presence. Now while we are working for construction for a new police station for Crooked Tree we found the need for us to rent a house to have a police present."

"Now we have a police by the name of Cpl. Ciego which will be in Crooked Tree."

Jules Vasquez
"Belize Rural North is one of the largest areas in terms of its geographic expanse. Being realistic 3 cycles aren't enough to empower the police in this area. You are really just putting a Band-Aid of a large wound."

Hon. Edmund Castro
"Yes Jules, but in areas where we never even had a Band-Aid; now we have Band-Aid and we are going to make progress. What we experience here today is getting more than just a Band-Aid - we are mobile now, which in the past was very difficult for our people especially who have 7-8 villages to cover."

The MOTORBIKES have been assigned immediately.

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