New police substation for Caribbean Shores
It is Belize City’s most upscale neighborhood, but the pleasant surroundings do not make West Landivar and Caribbean Shores a stranger to crime. As home to a number of the nation’s largest educational institutions, the neighborhood is alive with people both day and night. As of today it will also have the full time presence of law enforcement.
Jacqueline Woods, Reporting
The bright yellow and green building should make residents of Caribbean Shores feel more safe. According to Police Commissioner Hughington Williams, the new police substation is just one of many that will be constructed in the city. Williams says after inquiries were conducted in the neighbourhood they saw the need to have a permanent presence where citizens can call or go to if they need help.
Hughington Williams, Commissioner of Police
“One there was an increase in crime and secondly because mostly people tend to equate police presence with the number of vehicular patrols that rather than the permanent presence of police. Considering the distance, it is a way from our nearest head station. We thought it best to have one situated here.?
Jacqueline Woods
“Are there any other plans to similar sub-stations in the city??
Hughington Williams
?Yes. I am aware that there are plans, I?m not sure exactly where they will be located, but there are plans to put additional stations. With the expansion of Belize City, it becomes very necessary…it is costly to do patrols continuously in a neighbourhood like this, as well as there is valuable time wasted when you have to respond from a different area. We find that having stations located within the different sections of the city, we?re able to respond to the needs of the public better.”
No one was happier about the new facility than the area representative Joe Coye. Coye says the corner of Graduate Crescent and Campus Avenue is an ideal site.
Jose Coye, Area Representative, Caribbean Shores
“We looked around and given the advice from the law enforcers, they felt that it ought to be place in some strategic position seeing that it will be for the Caribbean Shore constituency. They considered this to be a very strategic position. We have the university, the whole educational complex with many children, we do have a lot of residents in this area, so I think it indeed turned out to be a very strategically place police station.”
If you would like to reach the Caribbean Shores Police Station you can call 72222 and ask for extension 403.
The police substation will be open twenty-four hours a day.
