National Security Strategy of Belize • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Develop a National Crime Control and Prevention Strategy to with cascaded policies, action plans and targets; People’s Coalition in every district to serve as a vehicle to solving local problems; A Gang Violence Prevention Unit comprised of specially trained police and public officers within the Police Department; Public Information campaign to support police work and engender respect for the rule of law; Improved coordination of the intelligence gathering arms of the Security Forces in disseminating their intelligence to an Intelligence Fusion Centre to ensure better flow of intelligence, nationally and regionally. A national communication network that enhances communication and information technology systems between the security forces and law enforcement agencies; A Cyber Crime Unit to develop enhanced policies, procedures, and enforcement to detect and deter pornography, sexual exploitation, and related activities in cyber space; A multi-sector Asset Seizure Agency whose functions are to include civil recovery, complex criminal confiscation and a national assets seizure strategy to seize the ill-gotten assets of criminals; A multi-sector Serious Crimes Unit to dismantle criminal networks; A drug demand reduction strategy and a multi-sector approach to achieve drug demand reduction and raise public awareness of the negative, unattractive aspects of the drug lifestyle (deglamorize); A National Identification System incorporating biometrics; A Border Management System that covers all Ports of Entry; A comprehensive database of criminal statistics to track patterns, measure effectiveness of crime prevention techniques, and to increase operational success; A crime pattern analysis GIS Database to track crime; Strengthen existing and enact new legislation to address modern challenges in law enforcement; Modern Forensic Laboratory with a National Ballistics Identification System and a National DNA Identification System; The Strategy 16