And the giving continued this afternoon at around 3:00 when a motorcade of police vehicles left the Raccoon Street police station and rolled through the streets of Southside Belize City. Now they weren’t showing off or testing their new rides again, these police officers were giving out Christmas hampers. After collecting canned foods and other grocery items from the police department and the business community, they packaged them all up and made door-to-door deliveries to needy families. We followed along:
ACP Chester Williams - Commander of Southside Police
"You know we are in the Christmas season and it is a season of love, a season of joy, a season of sharing and as a police department what we are doing this afternoon is sharing the love and sharing with people who we know for some reason or the other can’t afford to have the necessities they would need for Christmas.
Courtney Weatherburne
"How many hampers are you guys distributing?"
ACP Chester Williams - Commander of Southside Police
"Today we are disturbing a total of 95 hampers across Southside Belize City, we try to identify those persons who we know are unable to provide for themselves and if you notice in most cases they are elderly people who live alone and we find sometimes that the elderly people are left. They don’t have a means of income so it is difficult for them to provide for themselves for Christmas so as a police department we try to reach out to them to see how best we can assist in making their Christmas come true."
Reporter
"Why is this important for the police?"
ACP Chester Williams - Commander of Southside Police
"It is important for us because as a police department we are about caring for people and it comes under our community policing initiatives, we are reaching out to the community, you know often times when you hear about the police it is always something negative so we try to do positive things to try to give the police department a positive image while at the same time helping those we know need the help."
Several vehicles were deployed to distribute to families all around the Southside including Fabers Road Extension, Mayflower and Martin’s areas. Southside police  gave out all 95 hampers today.
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