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Citizens trained to help make their community safer

By on April 19, 2015

Belize City, Belize. Sunday, April 19, 2015. The Citizens on Patrol or C.O.P program is an initiative that the Belize Police Department is embracing as a means of getting the people involved in making their community and neighborhoods more safe.

And today, a group of 17 men and women from Belize City graduated after completing training.

They are now fully certified C.O.P-trained and ready for deployment along with uniformed police to work in their respective neighborhoods.

C.O.P graduation

C.O.P graduation

The training of these C.O.P graduates was carried out by a team headed retired Superintendent of Police Rudolph Orio with assistance from Sergeant Elroy Carcamo, Sergeant Clinton Magdaleno, Sergeant Brent Hamilton, Corporal Shannae Cavaliers and Colonel Francis Williams.  

The new C.O.P members are Rafael Rodriguez, Sirley Usher, Everett Nunez, Kimberly Card, Tiedra Ashby, Ivy Arthurs, Leticia Talbert, Eshautia Villanueva, Brenda Augustine, Jennena Alfred, Jenelee Carter, Darwin Alvarez, Jennifer Pinkard, Elton Quilter, Lauren Mena Sosa, Hector F. Romero III and Taryn Tillett.  

According to the Police Department’s website, “Citizens on Patrol IS A Community Policing program sponsored by the Belize Police Department. The purpose of the program is to enlist private citizens to volunteer time to actively patrol their community, to listen, watch and report and/or criminal behavior to the police. Citizens on Patrol provide greater observation of neighborhoods, both residential and businesses which increases police presence in the community and reduces crime.”

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