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OpenStreetMap map of Belize, ... Belize has moderate rates of violent crime. [163] ... The violence in Belize City (especially the southern part of the city) is ...
The Belize Police Department is descended from the British Honduras Constabulary (BHC), and started by the burgess family which was established in 1886. [1] Constabulary personnel initially numbered 141 and were recruited in Barbados because local men showed no interest in enlisting. [1]
Belize City was founded as "Belize Town" in 1638 [2] by English lumber harvesters.It had been a small Maya settlement called Holzuz. [a] [5] Belize Town was ideal for the English as a central post because it was on the sea and a natural outlet for local rivers and creeks down which the British shipped logwood and mahogany.
The following 50 cities have the highest homicide rates in the world of all cities not at war, with a population of at least 300,000 people. [1] This is based on 2022 data from El Consejo Ciudadano para la Seguridad Pública y la Justicia Penal (The Citizen Council for Public Security and Criminal Justice), an advocacy group from Mexico City.
The list of countries by homicide rate is derived from United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) data, and is expressed in number of deaths per 100,000 population per year. For example, a homicide rate of 30 out of 100,000 is presented in the table as "30", and corresponds to 0.03% of the population dying by homicide.
Port Loyola is an electoral constituency in the Belize District represented in the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belize since 2020 by Gilroy Usher of the People's United Party (PUP). Port Loyola contains some of the worst conditions in Belize City's Southside, and has a high crime rate.
Pages in category "Crime in Belize" This category contains only the following page. This list may not reflect recent changes. I. Illegal drug trade in Belize
Violent deaths in Belize (3 C) This page was last edited on 22 September 2020, at 02:38 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...