Do you believe that phone tapping will deter crime?
Tonight’s question is: Do you believe that phone tapping will deter crime? Send your comments and responses using your SMART phones to 8686 or post your vote on our e-poll at channel5belize.com. You can also send an email with your comments to questions@channel5belize.com.
Even though the mobile phone could play an important role in making sure the bad guys get caught in Belize, criminals tend to get creative in times of desperation. The criminals will start using codes, and our police will be back at square one, puzzled as to what is what, and the crime rate takes a new rise.
The old-fashioned method of simply calling the police still work, try it.
I believe it will. The criminals will stop talking on the phone n start meeting more n hopefully the police will have actions in place to catch them n prosecute them.
Phone tapping won’t deter or lessen no crime but if the government give the court a right to go ahead into hanging these criminals it will lessen the crime but phone tapping will never solve a single crime in Belize.what if they are using a Mexican or a Guatemalan phone chip in Belize, how the goddam hell on earth dean barrow will tell me that will solve crime. Minister of Police it’s time for you to do something right for Belize by hang these criminals!!!!
No it won’t.. Has it worked in the US? Some criminals are caught but those are the stupid ones. Criminals are smart and as such always keep a few steps ahead of the law.
phone tapping reduce crime.but in belize phone tapping is done illigal,violates the freedome of speach of belizeans.PHONE T in belize is done without cause,si done randomly-sometimes motivated not by prosecuting criminals,but by your polital views.here in the USA(belizean)in order for the police to listen to what you talkign in your phone,they have to get a court order,show a judge evidence that you are involved in criminal activities.see the difference?no such thing is done in belize by the police.i wonder how this PT is done in belize?do the police get a phone call from a politician saying,PT this guy phone,is he not pup,or udp!who knows,government dealings in belize are a SECRET.
Well if it doesn’t deter crime, it surely will put everybody’s business out on the streets. The government doesnt have a system in place nor personnel of strong moral values who will not use such technology to get in everybodys business and cause even greater problems. I believe that the government needs to propose and very stringent way of doing this before getting their feet wet.
There we go again…..hanging will not deter criminal activity. We have to be able to convict them first. Phone tapping will not do it either, that’s because I believe that this is motivated for political purposes! They will tap Briceno, Musa and all the others.
Of course it will work, if the intelligence services in the USA, UK and Israel used this as a main weapon in securing their populations size of 60 million plus why can’t work in a country with a population smaller than one of their villages.
It needs the trust of the government not the abuse their authority and the people to have confidence that their privacy will be maintained.
Looking for key words or coded words from intercepted calls really needs Trust. Having said that the fact the government has openly debated this is a positive start. What if it was done covertly? None of us would be any wiser and this poll would not be taking place.
nah… honestly,, that sounds like bs,,, how in the world will phone tapping deter crime??? have they forgotten that phones are used for personal reasons also<.. i wouldn't appreciate them tapping my phone while i'm speaking to my mother, sister, or another close relative.. or dang,, even my girlfriend,,, they make it sound like only criminals use phones out here,,, come on….
Lets hope the ministers phone are tapped as well.
I don’t understand y a lot of people r against it. As far as I understand it will target known offenders, criminals n their cronies so it shouldn’t b a problem. At least something is trying to b done, let’s not knock it before we try it.
If the Police knew who were the criminals, it would not be necessary fro wire tapping. That where we lack the ability to do real under-cover investigations. Wire-tapping will be used against everyone as a wild goose chase with hopes that it will rake in the criminals. Actually, the wire tapping legislation is to re institute the old SIS practices that the UDP government is famous for. The Police in Belize is certainly a big part of the problem because the majority of their elements are in bed with criminals. The economic power of organized crime has infiltrated our public and social institutions and certainly has penetrated the POLICE.
I do not think wire tapping will deter crime, the criminals are smart and will find inovative ways in avoiding such a trap.