Moving now to the matter of policing - the operation called "Not In My City" continues, and police say they plan to intensify it. No high profile drug or firearms seizures have been made, but police say the effort is all about keeping Belize City sterile and relatively crime free heading into September.
But while the police operation is one thing - a more concerted community policing effort is another component of it. With that police are reaching out to families with troublesome male teenagers - many of them who are being recruited by gangs as gunmen.
On Monday, a meeting was held with police and a dozen or so of these parents and their sons. The parents, in many cases, are crying out for help of out of control children.
On Tuesday Senior Superintendent Edward Broaster explained how one mother turned her son over to police:..
Sr. Supt. Edward Broaster, Deputy Commander - Eastern Division
"Just yesterday with a special operation that we had a parent turn in her own child with respect to a gold chain that he had and she told us plainly ask him to tell you where he got the gold chain from because she knows he didn't came by it legitimately. Its things like this we need to do as parents, as police officers, as community members to change the dynamics of what is happening out in our society today."
Our reports say that the parents were encouraged to agree to send their troublesome sons off to a BDF boot camp for discipline and removal from the city's crime hotbed.
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