Police Meet and Greet Goes to Gungulung

A phalanx of police officers descended on LaCroix Boulevard this evening before making its way into Holy Emmanuel Street where they broke off into individual groups to introduce themselves to residents in Gungulung.  We haven’t been invited to join the police department on its weekly Meet and Greet for quite sometime and today we accompanied them as they cordially met with a number of persons in the area.  At the helm was Commissioner of Police Chester Williams.

Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police

Chester Williams

“ What is happening today, I decided to join the Eastern Division team to come on Meet and Greet.  I believe that I am not too big now for this, not just because I am the Commissioner of Police means that I cannot do Meet and Greet anymore.  And so, this is something that I want to do across the country.  This week I am doing it in Belize City and next week I might go maybe to Cayo and then the following week to Orange Walk, but I also want to be a part of Meet and Greets where I can also go out and listen to the concerns of the public and see how I can address those concerns at the level of my office.  I must say that so far from what we have been told on today’s Meet and Greet from the persons we have encountered is that they feel pretty safe within their area, they are satisfied with the work that the police have been doing.  They believe that the curfew is a good thing and they want it to continue and one gentleman expressed that he believes that the police can become a little bit more productive if they would be a little bit more tactical in how they operate and I do understand and agree with what he is saying.”