The Minister of the Interior assured that we live in an “increasingly violent” society, and “in a terrain that the country had not traveled before.”
The minister of Inside, Luis Alberto Heberassured in a press conference that the Uruguay it’s found “in a terrain that I had not walked before”as a consequence of “an increasingly violent society”and in which the attack on the “hard core” of crime must be addressed from the coordination of public policies of a “Safety Cabinet” that involves the National Administration of Public Education (ANEP) and to Ministry of Public Health (MSP).
For the head of the Interior, the roots of the latest crimes are related to “cultural”, “economic”, and “social” causes that encompass these other ministries. Along these lines, he highlighted comments made by the president, Luis Lacalle Pou, regarding prioritizing addictions and mental health in the next Accountability, two issues “in relation” to “the causes of crime,” he said.
Heber presented his security strategy to the National Party
The hierarch presented this Monday before the National Party a document called “Comprehensive and Preventive Security Strategy”but he assured that he is not “asking for opinions on what to do” in “the fight against organized crime”, but that he is trying to “build” how to attack “the causes of violence”.
The portfolio reported that the document in question includes some 15 measuresand is organized in 4 groups: information systems; social and community prevention; police prevention and tertiary prevention.
Heber, valued the advances in the dialogue that have been generated between all the political parties, but slipped that “nobody has the truth in their hand”. However, he maintained that “political parties will be given time” so that they can analyze the current situation, since if they “hurry up”, “understanding fails”.
In turn, the minister recalled that he does not lose sight of the current situation of the prisons, so that the inmates “do not finish consolidating their addiction” and can have a future. However, he recognized that this “is not a job from one day to the next”, but that continuity in government administrations is necessary, regardless of which party is in government.
Source: Ambito
