While the homicides in the Uruguayan metropolitan area advance, the Interior Minister promised “more work and police presence.”
He President Luis Lacalle Pou met with him Minister of the Interior, Luis Alberto Heber, to whom he demanded “best results” in safety, at a time when it increases the number of homicides in Montevideo and the metropolitan area of Uruguay, fact for which the hierarch will be questioned in the Chamber of Deputies.
At the end of the meeting, in which the police leadership participated, Heber explained that it was about “an informative meeting”. At a press conference, he admitted that “naturally we have to improve the results.” Within the framework of the Executive’s measures to combat the problem, he announced that “police work and presence will be increased in what has to do with the deployment, with various tactical operations”.
The minister admitted that “The president is above all issues, he wants to be directly informed and always asks for better results”. On Lacalle Pou’s considerations on the subject, he stressed that he “gave opinions on the demand that the political power is making to Police professionals to have better results than we are having.”
In any case, regarding his punctual function, he stated: “The results are better, notably in robbery and theft, not so much in homicides.” And he highlighted the fight against the sale of drugs. “We want to reduce homicides, but there is a whole tactical deployment that is an integral part of the fight against drug trafficking and has as a consequence an increase in homicides,” he said.
At the same time, he appreciated that “there are police officers who continue to be certified, who are essential for patrol compliance” and contrasted them with “many policemen who are in a position to take refuge in the security and social protection system, when many times they work elsewhere”.
Fernando Pereira demanded Heber’s resignation
In the midst of the fight against insecurity, the president of the Broad Front (FA), Fernando Pereira, assured that Heber “it was exhausted in its own management”. In addition, he questioned the credibility of the people and called for the resignation of the hierarch.
“A minister who is exhausted, who people do not believe, You shouldn’t stay in office.” sentenced. In this regard, he clarified: “It is not a problem of getting along well or badly with the minister, it is a problem that society no longer believes him and cannot live in peace in his neighborhoods.”
Source: Ambito
