2.3K views · 22 reactions | Crime Observatory Says Belize City Remains A Hot Spot But Belize City remained a hot spot, and the Crime Observatory data is being used to help formulate a multi agency response. Adele Ramos says, however, violence crime prevention needs wider community support. | News 5 Live | Facebook

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