Dr. Richard Rosado Tapped to Become New Police Commissioner

As Williams prepares to transition to the CEO position, Dr. Richard Rosado is preparing to become the new Commissioner of Police. While there has been no official announcement from the Prime Minister, he has stated that Rosado will be taking up the mantle. Dr. Rosado brings over two decades of distinguished service to the department, having held various key positions throughout his career. Today, Minister of Home Affairs Kareem Musa weighed in on his expectations for Rosado. Musa explained that while Rosado has a different working style from Williams, he expects to see the same results.

Kareem Musa, Minister of Home Affairs: “I work very closely  with the Commissioner, with the deputies of our department, with the assistant commissioners of our department. I have a good relationship with all of them. In my opinion, it’s going to be a smooth transition. Yes, you might say to yourself that you will not have the level of relationship that the media has with the Commissioner of Police because I think that the future Commissioner is a lot more reserved, so to speak. And so, perhaps we would need to fill the void because this is by far the most transparent commissioner, but we need to continue to fill that void to make sure the media gets the information that it needs each and every day. And so filling that void perhaps with a public relations officer, I don’t think anybody could have done a better job than the commissioner in terms of representing what is taking place within our department and the crime statistics.  And so moving forward, you could see greater  involvement of other personnel an academic, as you said, Dr. Rosado,  and greater strategy not that this commissioner didn’t have a great strategy because yes  we have all the results to prove it. So it will be a continuation of the good strategy that our commissioner has put in place.”

Musa also sung praises for ComPol Chester Williams for his decades of service to the department. Musa thanked the public officer for his years of service and his efforts over the years to save countless lives.

Kareem Musa, Minister of Home Affairs: “I have the unenviable task of  overseeing the transition of authority, the transition of the head of the Belize Police Department at a time when Belize undoubtedly has seen one of the greatest commissioners. No matter what Jules Vasquez might try to say or do to this Commissioner of Police, his record speaks for itself.  I think you can look at his entire tenure in office it has been an accomplished record. He has done so much, not just in terms of reducing crime, but for the welfare of the police officers in our department. And so it’s a difficult thing because I know the commissioner still has a lot of life left in him. He’s only 51 years old but the prime minister and myself discussed the future because we certainly would never want to lose our commissioner and his capabilities, his capacity.  As you know, last year we had  the most traffic fatalities probably in the history of the country. Our commissioner can back me up on that.  And we can see where even while he was commissioner sharing with us at the cabinet level a lot of strategies that can be put in place to make our highways a lot safer. And so we thought it fitting, myself and the prime minister, the prime minister, of course to elevate our Commissioner of Police to the position of the Chief Executive Officer in that ministry as well as the Constitutional Affairs and Indigenous Affairs.”

He holds a doctorate in Business Administration with a concentration in Police Leadership from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland..