The Minister of National Security, Patricia Bullrichand the governor of Santa Fe, Maximilian Pullaroshared a conference in Rosary in which They provided data on crime figures in the city, and highlighted that violence levels had dropped by up to 70%.
In dialogue with the press, the officials announced the results of the Flag Planimplemented in January to combat illicit activities in the city of Santa Fe
The operation divides the map of Rosario into nine zones, where the main drug gangs of the province are located. The troops of the four federal forces are distributed there to combat crime and regain control of the territory.
Maximiliano Pullaro highlighted the decrease in crimes in Rosario
In this regard, Governor Pullaro assured that “To date, there is a 66% decrease in violence compared to last year and 70% less than the year before last; it is the lowest number of gunshot wounds and homicides in the last 17 years in the city of Rosario, and the lowest number of homicides and gunshot wounds of the century in the provincial capital.”
Along these lines, he stated that “this undoubtedly shows us that the direction we have taken together with the national government and the other powers is the direction we had to take with great firmness, determination and clarity.”
“But these data are not the end point, but the starting point,” said the governor of Santa Fe, who anticipated that “a second stage of this program is coming, which we are carrying out jointly with the Nation, so we will continue to strengthen the operational levels.”
He also stressed that “there will be a call for applications for 52 prosecutors in the province with the aim of filling the vacancies with substitutes that are missing in the Public Prosecution Office so that the investigation can be improved.”
“We are going to invest 50 million dollars to add 5,000 security cameras, which will make Rosario the most monitored city in the country, and we will invest 400 million dollars in public prison and police works to build 4,260 prison spaces in these four years and we are committed to finishing the 4 police stations that the city of Rosario is missing,” broad.
Measures in prisons
For its part, Patricia Bullrich He listed the results of the implementation of the Plan Bandera in these first months of the year and pointed out that “the main drug trafficking leaders are isolated and incommunicado in prisons, while restrictions and all communication and operation measures have been increased; the operation from inside the prison, we cannot say that it is finished, but it is reduced to the maximum.”
And he added: “We are constantly conducting checks, and in the last three checks involving the five forces at high risk in federal prisons, we have not found a single element.”
“We have increased cocaine seizures by 500% compared to the same period in 2023, meaning that there is a very sharp drop in the flow of cocaine in Rosario and federal forces arrested 555 people linked to drug trafficking,” said the minister.
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In addition, Bullrich reviewed that “856,688 people have been checked, with 647 people arrested; 382,662 vehicles have been checked, with 344 being seized; 191 raids have been carried out so far this year and we have 387 investigations underway; and an agreement has been signed with ANMAC (National Agency for Controlled Materials) for the control of all weapons in the city of Rosario.”
He added that “all these measures combined with intelligence, research, advanced technology in the systems within the prisons and the way we have worked have given us a concrete result that we intend to continue working on because we are happy but attentive.”
Last Friday, on the eve of President Javier Milei’s visit to the Rosario Stock Exchange, a bomb threat at the institution set off alarm bells. The threat was ultimately dismissed and the event took place as normal.
Source: Ambito
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