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Police Minister On City Crime Spike
posted (August 31, 2017)
At that launch, we also got a chance to speak with Minister of Police, Elodio Aragon, and we've already shown you part of that interview.

But we also asked him about the spike in crime for the month of August, and what the police top brass is doing to contain the violence in the city. Here's what he had to tell us:

Hon. Elodio Aragon, Minister of State - Police
"Every day the Belize Police Department looks at what is happening on the ground. We have to constantly be looking at what we are doing, what need to be improved upon and definitely every crime is a concern for us. Every murder is a murder too many and definitely the police department and the ministry is always concern about crime. What I can tell you is that the situation I don't know to what extent you called it a spike. If you look at our monthly statistics there is always a numbers of incidents that occurred on a monthly basis of course. We always have to be concern with these incidents and I can tell you one thing, we have the people on the ground, we have a number of the command at works. For instance we have Mr. Vidal, we have Mr. Broaster who is in charge of operations nationally, we have Ms. Phillips who is here as the person in charge and they are well aware of what is happening and we are doing what is necessary to deal with the situation at hand."

"These are the kinds of things we have to do on a continuous basis. There is no panacea to solving the crime situation that we have. We know what needs to be done, we are working on it to deal with the situation, but this is something that from here to kingdom come we'll always have challenges in dealing with crime. But I want to rest assure that the police department is doing certain things. For instance over this long weekend people might not have known, but we have upped in terms of having more personnel on the ground, more patrols and I think you are all aware of that if you are following the situation, because we pre-empt certain things. We look at what is happening and we look at the solutions, we look at what kind of reactions that we need to do to ensure that we deal with the situation."

"We have had a number of murders that have been solved. I think the 2 incidents in San Pedro have led to arrest and charges for murder. So we are doing our work to try to bring people to justice that are involved in criminal activities."

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