Bz. City Police visit child care centre

They have filled a week with events, encouraged and promoted community relations…and today, the Belize Police Department took their cause to the children. The forty-eight children who call the Dorothy Menzies Child Care Centre home were the guests of honour, but according to the officers the privilege was all theirs.

Sgt. Ranalda Morgan, Eastern Division, Police Dept.

“It’s a sort of community service and we feel that as part of the week we have to give something back to the community.”

Janelle Chanona

“So what sort of things have you been doing with the children?”

Sgt. Ranalda Morgan

“We had a dinner party with them and right now they are playing some music for them and they are dancing.”

G. Michael Reid, Police Press Officer

“Police officers try to reach out to, in particular, the youths and the elderly. We know that the children at the home here welcome any kind of attention they get, any kind of concern that is shown. And the police is all about that, reaching out to the community and certainly to the children who are less fortunate than others.”

Janelle Chanona

“Looking back, I know this is the end of Police Week, looking at the week’s activities, is there anything the department is going change next year, to reprogram, redevelop?”

G. Michael Reid

“Yes indeed. We are going to do a whole evaluation of the whole reaction coming from people that we reached out to. It’s been very successful, thanks to the attention given by the media.”

Police Week 2003 will end on Saturday with hundreds of officers marching through the main streets of Belize City. This year’s theme was “Make Belize Safer”.