Women in Law Enforcement Preparing for Historic March

After covering the escalating dispute within the Belize Carnival Association, we shift now to a very different show of unity and purpose. As Belize prepares to observe Women’s Month in March, the Belize Police Department is gearing up for what it calls a historic first: an all‑female law enforcement march through Belize City. Female officers from across the country, joined by their counterparts in the Coast Guard and the Belize Defense Force, will take to the streets in a powerful display of solidarity. The event is expected to draw hundreds of women in uniform, all rallying behind one message. Here is more from Assistant Superintendent Stacy Smith.

 

ASP Stacy Smith, Staff Officer

“In collaboration with Women’s Month, which occurs in the month of March every year, the Belize Police Department will be hosting its first of a kind all female law enforcement march. And we have extended invitation to our sisters in law enforcement, the Belize Coast Guard and the Belize Defense Force and they are expected to make representation along with us. The march will start off at approximately nine o’ clock a.m. on second March. We leave from in front of the House of Culture and we proceed up Regent Street and onto Albert Street. This March will feature some over six hundred and fifty police officers, Coast Guard and BDF combined, and it is held under the theme of “Uniting Women in Law Enforcement for a Safer Belize”. So we would like to take this opportunity to encourage everyone, those of you who are able to come down in the area, schools in particular, to bring out the students and witness history in the making as we celebrate women in law enforcement.”

 

And as organizers finalize preparations, they say this all‑female march will showcase the strength and unity of women in uniform as they make history together.

 

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