Every week there is a murder. It seems there is an endless supply of weapons in the city. How about checkpoints around the city, especially on weekends? How about dividing the city into zones and have extra police presence along with more military personnel patrolling the areas? How about motivating the police with financial incentives and extra days off for a job well done? How about putting more alert and ambitious police officers at both Western and Northern checkpoints?

These big guys should get off their seats and leave their comfortable homes and lead their men by example. Come to the city streets and walk with your men and have a hands-on experience of what the crime situation is really like, and the hardships the men and women of the police department have to face everyday. What better morale booster than to have their commanders fighting crime shoulder to shoulder with them, not only giving orders from Belmopan or their well protected homes in the city.

We, the people of the city, want more police/BDF patrols, a more coordinated effort to stop the bloodshed, better equipment for the police in the city to fight crime, help from outside the country to assist the police in all these murders, and most important of all ? less talking and more action. Please make the city of Belize a safer one where one can work and play without fear of getting killed or hurt!!

Thank you,

(Signed) Liston Burke

Belize City