Police Minister: Policing Easter Weekend a Success!

This afternoon, Minister of Home Affairs Kareem Musa was asked about policing the Easter weekend.  While some of the popular tourist destinations like Hopkins, Placencia and San Pedro recorded high number of visitors, Musa says that he didn’t receive reports about arrests.  According to the minister, cops were very lenient with locals and policing the weekend was a success.

Kareem Musa

Kareem Musa, Minister of Home Affairs

“I have not heard about people being arrested and normally I am the first one that gets those calls. So, I would be very surprised to learn that in fact a lot of people were arrested, above normal. What I can tell you is that the police officers in San Pedro, Caye Caulker and Placencia were instructed to utilize a lot of discretion and to give individuals and members of the public an opportunity to rectify if it is that they were borderline breaching any of the protocols.  So, if for instance they had off their mask because they were eating, they were issued a warning as opposed to a direct ticket. So, a lot of the crowd controls were properly managed because I didn’t get a lot of these reports and when there was a possible overcrowding about to take place, police officers took action and basically separated the crowd and told them what they can and cannot do. These are in all the hotspots. I do not have any complaints coming from the public and I think this weekend was very successful in terms of our management of the regulations and management of the overcrowding and certainly it was a boost for our economy to have local tourism taking place at all these beautiful destinations.”