Police Release Crime Stats, But Media Shut Out of CompStat Briefing The Belize Police Department released its first set of crime statistics for 2025 on Thursday, figures pulled from the department’s CompStat report. Normally, these numbers are presented in Belmopan, followed by a Q&A where the media can press the Minister of Home Affairs and the Commissioner of Police on the details. But this year… that didn’t happen. The media wasn’t invited, meaning no questions, no clarifications, and no publ

Why Didn't ComPol Invite the Media To CompStat? And the media also grilled the ComPol on why he didn’t invite us to this year’s national CompStat meeting. As we told you, every year, the media receives an invite and an opportunity to discuss the numbers with the former commissioner and the former minister. But not this time. However, Rosado argued that we’ve never actually been invited to the meeting itself and that this year, they decided to let the government press office in for the first time