AMANDA - DON - JESSE - ET AL
Here is a copy of the message I just sent to everyone on the North Ambergris Caye Neighborhood watch e-mail list. I thought I would share it with you.

I beg everyone to attend tonight's meeting. I attended the meetings on the 8th & 10th and was impressed with the quality of the input from the attendees.

HOWEVER - I have yet to see a list of those recommendations or any action taken on them. It is time that demands be made for actions.

After the last meeting I talked to OC Arnold and suggested a program whereby volunteers assisted the police and freed them up for more active police work. I would be willing to organize an auxiliary of 14 people; each person signing up for l/2 day. i.e. if I signed up for Monday morning I would be there every Monday morning, etc. I BELIVE THERE ARE THOSE OF YOU WHO WOULD SIGN UP FOR THIS SENSITIVE DUTY.

The sole function would be to take police reports. This volunteer force would arrive at the station with laptop computers containing a boiler plate form of questions to be asked. After finishing the intake a printout would be made and the person filing the complaint as well as the interview would sign it.

When I went in to file a missing persons report it took over one hour for the woman police officer to write out less than one page. People like you and me could do this in no more than 15 minutes.

OC Arnold said he would consider it and call me on Monday. I have not heard from him. I have pondered why they would be reluctant to accept this FREE help (just as they have rejected the constable program) and can only conclude that they would consider us spies. And yes, we would be a set of eyes seeing what goes on there. We have a right to know what goes on there and if they truly want to clean up the department they should welcome our support.

I will be there tonight and I will bring this up in open forum - not on the side as I did last time.

Harriette
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