ACP Chester Williams Responds – Stop Talking and Start Helping

ACP Chester Williams

Those comments have not been taken well by those on the ground doing the interventions. Assistant Commissioner of Police Chester Williams struck back in his own unique style.

ACP Chester Williams, Commander, Eastern Division South

“As it relates to that criticism and wherever it came from, I want to say – I really and truly would not want to dignify it with an answer, but let me just say that when people who don’t know what you’re doing say things, the best you can do is to ignore them and pretend that you don’t hear their comments. I don’t know if that person knows what an intervention is, or what the components of an intervention or mediation are, but as far as I am aware, interventions are situations where you bring two parties to a conflict together and you try to as best as you can to intervene between them to prevent the problem from escalating as the case may be. So for them to suggest that you do interventions with people’s head covered, I really and truly think that is nonsensical, honestly, and again if they think that they can do better than what myself and my intervention team have been doing, then I welcome them to do it. This doesn’t need the Police to initiate things like this. Anybody who thinks that they can do better than what the Police have been doing or think that they can assist in the situation to try and curb the violence in the streets, they can walk the streets of Belize City and see how they can intervene or interact with these young people who are involved in these different feuds and try to assist them. But to sit behind a desk in an office like a fortress and all you do is criticize those who are trying, then…”