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Police Move Checkpoint To Keep Up With Criminals
posted (July 28, 2014)
Motorists passing by mile 4 on the Western Highway may have noticed that police have moved their checkpoint from that booth where the entrance of the Coast Guard Base is. If you're wondering why that decision was made, the commanding officers from Eastern Division say that criminals found a way to circumvent it, which defeated its purpose:

ACP Dezerie Phillips, O.C., Eastern Division
"The decision was made to remove the checkpoint where we believe that it would be more efficiently or effectively managed by the right officers out there. Because just having a building and having officers in and around there is a different result than what we are projecting. We believe it would be more effective and beneficial to everybody at the location where it's at."

Supt. Alford Grinage, Officer Commanding, Precinct 2, Belize City Police
"We have learn through intelligence about the checkpoint that where the checkpoint was located we have people that bring in drugs and other illegal things and bypass the checkpoint by walking across that road left from where the checkpoint is and go alongside the sea and then they will bypass the checkpoint completely. So that is one of the reason too that we decide to move up that side so that we could easily identify what is coming on from that area."

The checkpoint is now located at Miles 6, just before the bridge, in front of Jenelles' Gas Station.

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