More new pickups for police

There was much pomp and circumstance at the police station on Raccoon street as the Minister of National Security and Immigration, Jorge Espat officially handed over thirteen new vehicles to law enforcement agencies. Espat in his address said the vehicles are examples of the governments’ commitment to renew and transform Belize’s law enforcement agencies. Six of the new Ford pickups were given to the police department, five new vehicles to the Belize Defense Force and two to the Immigration and Nationality Department. The ministry acquired the trucks through a credit from the U.S Eximbank at a cost of four hundred and eleven thousand Belize dollars. This is the second set of vehicles that have been handed over to the police department. In April Larry Addington, a U.S businessman from Caye Chapel donated twenty pickups worth one point two million to the police department.