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Southside Cops Solving City Shootings
posted (February 17, 2016)

Since the middle of 2015, south side gun violence has been on the decline. But it spiked up last weekend when 15 persons between the ages of 17 and 19 were shot in three separate incidents.

Today, we asked the second in Commanding of the Southside if all of this is indicative of the gang warfare reaching another dangerous tipping point. Here is what he said.

Alden Dawson - Acting Regional Commander

"It's just an incident that the weekend saw two shooting and shooting is nothing new to the Southside. We have been very successful in keeping it to a minimal and to my mind two incidents over the weekend are actually minimal."

Duane Moody - Channel 5 News

"Sir what are you guys doing interventions in case of this?"

Alden Dawson - Acting Regional Commander

"We continue our meet and great with the public and again the meet and greet has been seeing a lot of success and through the same meet and greet has assisted us in getting information that led to the two arrests in the shooting."

Emanuel Pech

"Are any of these shootings gang related?"

Alden Dawson - Acting Regional Commander

"We have nothing at this time to say that they are gang related."

Emanuel Pech

"There has been reports that there is a rivalry specifically between two gangs, have you been receiving those same reports, are you looking into it?"

Alden Dawson - Acting Regional Commander

"Well I haven't received any specific report but we know for a fact that the so call gangs in Belize are always rivals against each other."

So far police have made no arrests in the Sunday morning shooting.

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