ComPol Williams, “Where Criminals are, Police will be too.”

According to the Commissioner of Police, Chester Williams, officers have been hard at work to reduce crime in the twin Towns of San Ignacio and Santa Elena. Over the past few months, police have increased operations to target known criminals in the communities. These operations include raiding the home of San Ignacio resident Khader Habet, whose house has been searched as many as thirteen times. Habet claims that he is being harassed by police. However, Williams says that the police are just doing their jobs to ensure that known criminals are targeted by the police for the safety of the entire country.

 

Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police

“As the Commissioner of Police, I have given directions to my officers in terms of what I want to see them do to make the good people of San Ignacio and Santa Elena feel safe. I think that the situation reaches a stage that idea where businesses were closing down and many others were threatening to close down as well because of the fact that they didn’t feel safe as a result of criminal activities. And most of these activities are driven by persons who want to have dominance in the drug world. And so when it comes to the young man, Habet what he failed to say to the media is that he is in this area where police operations in the past and even recently had led to the discovery of large number of drugs and a number of firearms hidden in the lot right beside him.  We know how most of these people in the criminal world operates because they know the police is going to be targeting them and coming to their homes to search. They’re not going to hide these items in their yard or in their homes. They would hide it next door so that if the police finds it, they will not be able to tie it to them.  Our intelligence have told us many things where he is concerned and he is a person of interest to us in that area. And so the police is going to continue to go to him. If it feels like going to the media and complaint is going to have the police back down from him, that is not going to happen.”