Elections Conducted Free of Major Crime Incidents

Commissioner of Police Chester Williams reported that the 2025 general election went off without any major incidents. We caught up with ComPol Williams today, and he shared that despite some skepticism after a violent weekend, his officers managed to keep everything peaceful and orderly.

 

Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police

“I would like to start off by commending the police officers who worked the election process yesterday. The effort they put out led to us having a peaceful election process. We know that around election times people are hype and often times the hype flows over into different activities that we may not want to see, like fighting and the likes. But I must say we were able to perform our duty in such a way that we had no incidents during the election process. It is a matter of fact I can go further to say that our national sitrep shows no major incidents across the country for the twenty-four hours period which demonstrates the police efforts in making sure elections was conducted in a safe environment. We do understand the importance police play in the democratic process. I know there were some skeptics going into the elections considering the flareups we had over the weekend gone as to whether or not it would be safe for people to come out and vote and I had gave my commitment to the Belizean people that we would do our utmost best to make sure that the environment for the election was safe and we achieved that so I commend the police for the stellar performance.”