Jan 25, 2021 Gian Cho The National Forensic Science Services assists the police department with carrying out post-mortems on about five hundred bodies. These are in the cases when a person’s death is classified as sudden, unexpected, unexplained, suspicious, and violent deaths. With support from the U.S. Embassy, the Government is working to strengthen Belize’s Medicolegal Death Investigation System, specifically as it relates to the Medical Examiner’s Office, a unit within the department. Executive Director Gian Cho told News Five that the goal is to improve the department’s human resources to consistently provide independent, accurate, complete information to support death investigations.