Posted: Saturday, January 4, 2025. 9:03 am CST.
By Zoila Palma Gonzalez: Last year, many Belizeans lost their lives in road traffic accidents on the highways of Belize.
The deadliest road traffic accident occurred in San Ignacio where 10 people lost their lives last month.
The Belize Police Department is now launching the Road Policing Unit to police the highways of Belize.
In addition to traffic violations, this unit will be tasked with cross border criminal activity.
“We have next week Monday will be the official launch of the Road Policing Unit, the Road Policing Unit is a new unit that we’re creating within the MIT and the Road Policing Unit is going to be tasked with policing our highways and byways. we’ll see more checkpoints in strategic areas of the country mounted by these officers and their duties is going to include looking at Human Trafficking, Human Smuggling, firearms trafficking, drug trafficking as well as those transient criminals and cross border transnational organized crime,” Commissioner of Police Chester Williams said.
Compol Williams says that the unit will be issuing traffic violations tickets and traffic police officers will work with national transport to conduct more checkpoints and highway patrols.
“So 2025 we intend to do a lot to mitigate the issues of Road Traffic Fatalities and we hope that the Belizean people work with us. Along with that we’ll also be pushing for the amendments to the laws, I think that is going to be discussed by Cabinet very shortly to see to what extent they intend to take the amendment, particularly where drunk driving is concerned and once we get those amendments in, we have stricter penalties, we believe it is going to help as well to serve as a deterrent to those persons who drive under the influence and those persons who drive and violate the road traffic rules and violations,” the Compol explained.
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Posted: Saturday, January 4, 2025. 9:03 am CST. By Zoila Palma Gonzalez: Last year, many Belizeans lost their lives in road traffic accidents on the highways
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