Officers Ready to Put Skills Into Practice

Jane Usher

While the training is to enhance the criminal justice system, for corporals Jane Usher and Jermaine Hyde of the Belize Police Department, the training will allow them to better their reporting to the top brass of the department as well as the public.

Cpl. Jane Usher, Belize Police Department

“We’ve learned a lot of structural analytical techniques that will help us to do better in predicting analysis. I think what I am definitely going to take home from this course is giving in report form to our commanders not only what is happening, but so what; what will we do with this information that we have. So a lot of what we have been reporting to them is what is going on; taking our statistics and putting it in chart form and numerical data, but so what? What do these numbers tell us and what can we do with this information from here? So that’s what I’ve learnt.”

Jermaine Hyde

Cpl. Jermaine Hyde, Belize Police Department

“Basically to add to what Miss Usher has said is that the course was a one week course. It taught us a lot of structural analysis as she mentioned, but what I will take away from this course is that what we were doing was right. We were on track, but what we were doing was merely assumption without supporting what we were producing to our commanders to put forward to the public. Now we will be confident in what we are putting forward because we will support those data with strategic structural analysis. So the public can be sure that this course will benefit them.”

The course will be expanded to the courts and training will be held for other sections of the justice system including police prosecutors and magistrates.