ComPol Tells Cartel Affiliated Police to Move to Chetumal

Recently, Commissioner of Police Chester Williams confirmed that one of the persons wanted for involvement with drug operations in Corozal is a member of the Belize Police Department on leave. While unable to provide more details on the ongoing investigation, Williams condemned the involvement of police officers in cartel activity, promising strict consequences for any officers found to have ties to their operations. Here’s more on that.

 

Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police

“I  am not going to say much on this because I have put together a team to investigate that whole issue in the north. Not just the civilians, but also the police officers who were getting information of our involvement. I have said this before and I’m going to say it again.  The Belize Police Department is not going to shield no police officer who gets entangled with cartels.  If you get entangled with cartels, the best I can do for you is to second you to Chetumal, where you can work with them. But I will not allow for police officers to be entangled with cartels and be working with other police officers who are not involved. And when a cartel come for them, they end up injuring innocent police officers. It is extremely risky. And so I have said that what we need to do is to investigate, identify those police officers. And I don’t think transferring them is going to us, because if we transfer them, they move to other areas and they recruit more police officers.  So they will, in essential, be contaminating more police officers. So,  my thing is that  we identify them and we get rid of them. You can’t be a cartel and be a police at the same time. You have to decide what you want to be. You can only be one. So either decide to be cartel or you decide to be police.  The fact that they have decided to be cartels, that there’s no need for no room for them to be police officers. We have  to part ways, and that’s the bottom line.”

 

Reporter

“Now, with this police officer that’s being sought, what is the status on him?”

 

Chester Williams

“I am told that he’s going to surrender himself today, and so we’ll wait and see how that goes.”