And while both bridges will be manned by police officers, we asked the CEO in the Ministry of National Defense, Francis Usher, about the security of Belize's border, especially given the incursions we have seen in the Sarstoon by the Guatemalan Armed Forces. He explained what they have been doing differently to reduce these tensions.
Francis Usher, CEO, Ministry of Defense
"By being proactive instead of reactive, what we have is we have to have, there is an old saying that they taught us in school having an aviation background and being a pilot, flexibility is the key to air power we have to be flexible in our approach in our strategies. We have to be able to adapt and be resilient when things change and that is what we have been doing. We have changed our strategy we have increased numbers where we need to increase them, in the past and I am not criticizing anyone but various leaders throughout Belize I would say were stuck in their ways in terms of this is the way we have always done it and so this is the way we will continue to do it. We are not doing that, we are adapting and we are changing the way we do things, the way we patrol, the way we conduct our operations that has yielded a lot of success there are several instances where, agitation rom our neighbors to the west and south will never stop but we are really, our BDF soldiers and our coast guard that are in the maritime sector that are encountering them, they have done a lot to kind of slow it down and to ensure that they know that we have a presence here we are conducting deterrents and when the deterrents do not work and they still try to persist hat we are there to detect and defeat any threat."
