And while police are moving ahead decisively with this investigations, they're moving a little slower when it comes to finding out who set those tyre fires in Teakettle in late June. Villagers did it as a form of protest to say police weren't doing enough to solve a murder mystery. Today the OC said that police are using emotional intelligence:..
Sr. Sup. Howell Gillet - OC, Belmopan
"Sometimes we have to be emotionally smart. The people believed at that time that the police would take action, but we were taking action. There were misconceived that the police wasn't doing sufficiently, but we were doing what we were supposed to do but the person was on the loose and I could tell you based on what I know that we had officers placed in many different areas to try to locate him. Someone did that on their part but there are consequences when you step outside. But yes emotionally the right thing would be to not charge the people, but if an offense is that glaring to us we have to investigate and if we find that someone or some people were involved then we have to lay charges in the future."
Reporter
"So you all will still pursue that investigation and lay charge?"
Sr. Sup. Howell Gillet - OC, Belmopan
"It's still an open investigation. Remember for an offense like that it takes up to 6 months before it's closed. It seems that the people who were involved were related and we can't force people to come forward to testify. It seems that there was strong relationship amongst the people who were involved with the fire so it is proven a little difficult to really pin point who were the person involved."
Area representative Julius Espat gave OC Gillette a not-so-veiled threat in the house one month ago - saying he would be wise not to make any arrests in that case.
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