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

1.3K views | Established in 2010, the RESTORE Belize Programme was created in response to a rising crime rate in Belize. Eight years later, Belize Now found out how the programme has impacted lives and achieved its goal thus far. | Government of Belize Press Office | Facebook