And on the adjournment of today's House Meeting, the member for Belize Rural Central also brought up the very topical issue of police brutality. She spoke about many cases including the recent case of Allan McCoy:..
Hon. Dolores Balderamos Garcia, Belize Rural Central Rep.
"Mr. Allan McCoy was extremely articulate and detailed in what he suffered at the hands of the GSU. All I could do is shake my head and say to myself, those members of the GSU, it seems to me that they believe that they have some kind of license to brutalize because they thought that Mr. Allan McCoy had been involved in an incident involving one of their own - every single somebody in the GSU in that incident was getting in their licks even the woman GSU personnel. And the most horrendous kind of brutality that we as Belizeans can imagine and almost every single day we are hearing about more and more incidents of police brutality."
Hon. John Saldivar, Minister of Nat'l Security
"I join the member for Belize Rural Central, though she didn't say it as in many words, but certainly in saying that as Minister of National Security I have zero tolerance for police brutality. We have a professional standards bureau that is charged with the responsibility of receiving and investigating and bringing to justice all those who are accused and found guilty of police abuse."
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