Adele Ramos, the technical coordinator for the Belize Crime Observatory, was one of the presenters at this GIS conference, and she gave a detailed account of how this government agency has used GIS applications to carefully analyze the country’s major crime trends. An interesting part of her presentation today was a snapshot of the 2020 murder count, and how the COVID-19 pandemic and the states of emergency caused the country’s numbers to fall in a very noticeable way. Here’s here detailed look

The murder rate has been low since the declaration of a State of Emergency(SoE) due to crime and subsequently to Covid-19. Police Commissioner has credited the low murder rate to the hard work of the Belize Police Department. Reference this case, the Police Commissoner says this double homicide may be the result of a land dispute. At the crime scene police found two nine millimeter expended shells and one live round of nine millimeter ammunition. Love News understands that Espinosa worked in the

16K views · 129 reactions | As Expected, Pandemic Lockdown Affected Crime Rates The Belize Crime Observatory has released data from the years 2020 and most of 2021. Project Coordinator, Adele Ramos, appeared on Open Your Eyes this morning. She said as expected, the pandemic and its accompanying lockdowns and other restrictions had a strong impact on some categories of crime, causing a dramatic drop in some types. | News 5 Live | Facebook