| How to Enforce Against Corrupters? |
| Tue, August 11, 2020 |
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| We also asked Soberanis about how the Cost Guard tries to keep its unit corruption free. It's a fact of life that as borders close - late enforcement is under severe pressure to enforce but also to not enforce by smugglers who will pay for a little "bly", or looking the other way.
We asked him how they manage that push and pull between law enforcement and outlaw pressures:
Jules Vasquez, reporter
"It's a tough situation they're in, the trade in contraband is in the thousands of dollars, and the trade in illicit products is in the hundreds of thousands, or millions of dollars. How do you ensure that your officers remain steadfast and honest in their duties?"
Gregory Soberanis, Acting Coast Guard Commandant
"Jules, that's a very good question. Operational integrity is of utmost importance for us as an organisation."
"We constantly engage our people and remind them that operational integrity is important because we have a duty and an obligation to the citizens of 09:45 this country, that the citizens of this country expect the Coast Guard to operate at a high standard."
"We keep saying to them that the uniform is not a fashion statement, the uniform really and truly represents a standard that says to every citizen of this country, that we are serious about maritime safety, we are serious about maritime security and we are serious about the naval defence for the country of Belize."
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