Police Put in Place Protocols to Intercept Drug Plane

Belize’s name came up recently during “El Chapo” Guzman’s trial in a New York courtroom in relation to cocaine.  In 2018, we reported on an increasing number of drug plane landings across Belize. In most cases, the planes would land and its cargo offloaded before the aircrafts would be torched to destroy any evidence of its contents, which is slipped through unofficial border crossings along the Rio Hondo River. Earlier this year, allegations were made against senior officers of the police department as well as politicians on their purported involvement in the illegal activity. Today, Deputy ComPol Edward Broaster would only say that he will not address anything to do with the allegations, but his attorney will. Broaster, however, did speak on what the department will do to address the clandestine drug plane landings.

Edward Broaster

Edward Broaster, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Operations)

“I have no interest in what that so called whistleblower is doing. As a matter of fact, he implicated myself in a certain way and my attorney is dealing with that. I have no interest in dealing with him or hearing from him because I know other things that we are not prepared to reveal at this time. But when it comes to the drug plane landings, we have protocols in place that will see interception and as you can see, we have been successful in intercepting planes in the north, in the south and drugs in the Belize District and we will continue to pursue those goals and objectives that we have in place. And I am sure that we will be able to thwart and intercept some of these plane landings that are occurring in our country.”