Does ComPol Williams have a Job After the Next General Election?

Does the Commissioner of Police’s job depend on which political party is in charge? And does his term end when a new government takes over after a general election?  ComPol Williams, who took office under a U.D.P. administration, is now fifty-two and holds the record as the longest-serving top cop in Belize’s history. But the big question is, will he keep his job if the People’s United Party wins the next general election and takes over?

 

Reporter

“Were the PUP to win another term, should the Commissioner of Police be reappointed or continue in his appointment or if a new PUP government is elected, should that government seek to have a new Commissioner of Police?”

 

Kareem Musa, Minister of Home Affairs

“Well the post of the Commissioner of Police, and I’m sure that the commissioner will explain this to you.. He has up until the age of fifty-five to retire.  He has indicated that he wants to offer himself in other areas of public service perhaps politics, ComPol.  I don’t know where his mind is at, in terms of that, but I see it as continuing.  So while it is that the commissioner reserves that right to continue, I believe that in the new administration it is just going to be, obviously, a seamless transition.”