TR (Bz) - Compol attends gang meeting-Belize, & U.S. to crackdown on MS 13 gang
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The Reporter (Bz)
Compol attends gang meeting-Belize, & U.S. to crackdown on MS 13 gang
Friday, 09 February 2007
By Ann-Marie Williams - News Editor
Belize’s Police Commissioner Gerald Westby, is part of a team of top police brass wrapping up a three-day Los Angeles Chiefs of Police Leadership Summit on Transnational Gangs.
The meeting is focusing on the Mara Salvatrucha, (MS13) gang problem from a domestic and international perspective.
According to Westby the forum affords the participants insights into how the gangs are developing into an organised crime enterprise and how best to deal with them through regional intelligence.
According to Reuters News Agency, police chiefs met in Los Angeles on Tuesday and kicked off the new co-ordination initiative.
The United States and Belize, along with three other Central American nations, agreed on Monday to toughen a crackdown on violent youth gangs that have terrorised the region in a rampage of murders, rapes and robberies.
U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said the new initiative includes setting up a transnational anti-gang unit, to be known as TAG, to combat the problem.
The so-called mara gangs, their members heavily tattooed, grew out of Hispanic gangs in Los Angeles. There are hundreds of thousands of gang members across Central America and in the United States.
Gonzales said the four Central American nations that teamed up for the new region-wide crackdown were El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala and Belize.
Previously most of the attempts to clamp down on the gangs had been done on a country-by-country basis.
“These gang members are constantly travelling and committing crimes en routes to the United States,” Salvadoran President Tony Saca said in a joint news conference to announce the crackdown. “This is a vicious circle that has to be broken.”
The initiative is aimed at improving the police performance, the arrest of fugitives, international co-ordination and exchange of information as well as training and prevention, Gonzales said.
TAG members will receive FBI training and will have the specific goal of pursuing and prosecuting gang members who commit crimes.
Reporter waits to hear what the specific initiative in Belize will be.
Last Updated ( Friday, 09 February 2007 )
The Reporter (Bz)
Compol attends gang meeting-Belize, & U.S. to crackdown on MS 13 gang
Friday, 09 February 2007
By Ann-Marie Williams - News Editor
Belize’s Police Commissioner Gerald Westby, is part of a team of top police brass wrapping up a three-day Los Angeles Chiefs of Police Leadership Summit on Transnational Gangs.
The meeting is focusing on the Mara Salvatrucha, (MS13) gang problem from a domestic and international perspective.
According to Westby the forum affords the participants insights into how the gangs are developing into an organised crime enterprise and how best to deal with them through regional intelligence.
According to Reuters News Agency, police chiefs met in Los Angeles on Tuesday and kicked off the new co-ordination initiative.
The United States and Belize, along with three other Central American nations, agreed on Monday to toughen a crackdown on violent youth gangs that have terrorised the region in a rampage of murders, rapes and robberies.
U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said the new initiative includes setting up a transnational anti-gang unit, to be known as TAG, to combat the problem.
The so-called mara gangs, their members heavily tattooed, grew out of Hispanic gangs in Los Angeles. There are hundreds of thousands of gang members across Central America and in the United States.
Gonzales said the four Central American nations that teamed up for the new region-wide crackdown were El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala and Belize.
Previously most of the attempts to clamp down on the gangs had been done on a country-by-country basis.
“These gang members are constantly travelling and committing crimes en routes to the United States,” Salvadoran President Tony Saca said in a joint news conference to announce the crackdown. “This is a vicious circle that has to be broken.”
The initiative is aimed at improving the police performance, the arrest of fugitives, international co-ordination and exchange of information as well as training and prevention, Gonzales said.
TAG members will receive FBI training and will have the specific goal of pursuing and prosecuting gang members who commit crimes.
Reporter waits to hear what the specific initiative in Belize will be.
Last Updated ( Friday, 09 February 2007 )
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