Local News

The government of Belize has announced another step towards addressing strengthening the police’s prosecution of criminal cases.  According to a government statement, Cabinet at its regular meeting today approved a proposal to hire a trained attorney to head the police’s prosecutions branch.   The government statement says that the initiative, put forward by the Ministry of National Security, is a proactive step forward to strengthen and enhance the effective prosecution of summary criminal cases, offer readily available in-house legal advice on preliminary inquiries, assist with the review of on-going police investigation case files and create close coordination with the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions.