Another divisive public issue that police have to deal with is Michael Usher's murder in The St Martin's area on Monday night.

The Compol spoke with us regarding the lack of urgency among his officers to rush the dying shooting victim to the hospital.

He said he would have acted differently. Today the minister of home affairs chimed in to say that perhaps the officers should have done the same.

Kareem Musa, Minister of Home Affairs
"I saw the video footage and yes I did feel a lot of empathy, a lot of sympathy for the victim, particularly because I knew him well. I knew Mr Usher well and to see him take his last breath like that on the ground a few minutes before the ambulance arrived it certainly was very painful as most Belizeans had to witness that take place and I know your follow up question is why didn't the police officers take Mr Usher to the hospital and I will agree with you to come extent. But as you know they are not trained medical professionals, they are not trained to deal with injured individuals like that in emergency training, that is best left to a doctor. I actually had a conversation with a doctor at the KHMH who deals in this type of accident, trauma, fire, gunshot wounds and he said the best case scenario is the police are not to touch the individual and so that is coming from a doctor that if an ambulance is nearby it is best to wait for an ambulance to come but again in a situation like that, it did take a little while for the ambulance to get there and so I think in a circumstance like that where the ambulance is not immediately around the corner, that perhaps the police department and police officers should have taken him to the hospital."

"We do have training in terms of first aid emergency response but not to the level of training them to be these types of doctors, they're not trained doctors, they're police officers. We have to understand, or EMTs, they're not EMTs, yes we do have first aid training for our police officers but at the same time we have to understand there's a separate department for fire, there's a separate department for doctors, who are properly trained, it takes years and years for them to be properly trained in order to deal with victims like this. The doctor I was speaking with this morning mentioned that one bad turn that you handle a particular victim could result in that person dying because of the gunshot and the way that the individual is placed, one bad handling of the individual could result in their death and so there are two sides to that argument but we have to look at it and certainly I think there is some middle ground that we can arrive at."