And while that sugar was found in the west, on Pelican Street in the city, police raided a house and found a bag with 20 grams of suspected cannabis in the backyard. Four men and a teenager were arrested for that one bag, and reports to our newsroom suggested that one of them may have had some big connections. Those reports also stated that because of those strings, the ComPol personally went to the cellblock to have him released.
However, we've shown you that the ComPol has been in Orange Walk this entire week. And today, he clarified those reports.
Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police
"I wonder how I went to the cell, I was in Orange Walk, so I don't know. But again, sometimes I wonder what is the objective of some police. The job of a police is not to criminalize people unnecessarily or unjustly. As the commissioner of police I will not preside over a department that takes advantage of people, there are some police officers who believe that because they have been given a certain power, they must use their power to take advantage of people. I will not tolerate that. You go to a house just to maybe get assistance to fix your bicycle or something. Seconds after you get to the house, police arrive. Police search the back of the yard with nobody there, say they found a bag of weed, a small little bag of weed, 20 grams of weed. They found this 20 gram of weed all the way in the back of the yard, you just reach there, now they want to charge you. Is that fair to you? We have to be fair to people. I simply said to the OC in Belize City, Mr Romero, in the circumstances, I do not believe it is going to fair to charge the young man. There was a case recently where our Supreme Court made a pronouncement in an incident similar to that where the accused persons then sued the department and we were held liable because as far as the law is concerned, it will be tantamount to malicious prosecution. It cannot be that because you are a police officer, you must want to exert your power to unjustly criminalize people and as a matter of fact, while yes the yard have a fence, the fence is low, anybody could have passed and dropped that in the yard, it's only 20 grams of weed for Christ sake. They need to stop it man."
