Public Safety: Unsafe Ciudad Trujillo

Published in the Daily Mail - Freedom - Trujillo, July 12, 2009 on page 4, City, opinion columns. CIUDAD TRUJILLO INSEGURAPor: Hugo Müller ® SolònCoronel PNP - PNP General Abogadomullerabogados@hotmail.comRecuerdo 2005 reached Trujillo accompanied by the Minister of Interior in turn President of the National Public Safety - CONASEC to reduce - as said - the high crime rates that had been recorded. The newcomer tried to close our eyes to reality, managing information and ensuring that Trujillo would turn unsafe to a safe city by reducing criminal violence, blamed parents for lack of control over their children and those who neglected self-assurance measures . Changed the PNP's operational strategy for the continued displacement of large numbers of police resources and police statistics by the media discourse the attention of authorities and neighbors, generating media coverage and the effect he wanted. However, the same CONASEC, in its National Plan of Public Safety, shows that until 2005 the four major problems of Trujillo, was the theft of motor vehicles, bicycle theft, the burglary attempt and robbery without violence.

In another section states that until 2005 was not the crime, but unemployment and lack of work, the main problem perceived by Trujillo. Trujillo then the city was not so insecure that would have us believe, and on the contrary, from this year and as a result of police strategy employed began to worsen the problems of crime, plus the error of not having kept the existing proactive methods including the Community Police, Schools of Public Safety, Crime Observatory and others were disabled to prioritize work reactive and repressive. Was reduced to zero strategic alliances between authorities, communities and support agencies, setting the stage for an emerging growth of insecurity, violence and crime, making Trujillo today in what is now an unsafe city. A city where the gap between social control authorities is evident and where the robbery, the settling of scores dead or clashes with police and murder as part of the news of the day to day.The National Public Safety Plan 2009, reveals that La Libertad is the fifth highest incidence nationwide criminal after Lambayeque.

The second to Lima in traffic accidents with death and the third with the highest number of traffic accidents without death after Arequipa. It also reports that by 2008 only 8.33% of sworn the total Provincial Public Safety Committees and District Committees 2.82%. Now you know why Trujillo became an unsafe city and to what extent it could create better security again. Local authorities have the floor.

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