The Ministry of the Interior presented, this September 2, the figures for the third month of the Strategic Plan of the Task Force that made possible seizures for more than 18 million pesos between July and August. The actions allowed the dismantling of 218 mouths and the seizure of some 20,700,000 pesos since its implementation. “The plan has been giving results,” stressed the head of the agency, Luis Alberto Heber.
Heber was accompanied at the conference by the deputy director of the National Police, Héctor Ferreira; the police chiefs of Montevideo and Canelones, Mario D’Elía and Victor Trezza respectively, and the director of Interpol, Juan Rodríguez.
The Secretary of State said that the strategic plan reflects good results month by month, in terms of police deployment to combat drug trafficking. “There is a plan and it is succeeding,” he stressed.
During the presentation of the report, Rodríguez highlighted the combination of means and resources of the National Police to achieve better results as pillars. He also detailed that 108 people were detained in the period between July and August, with a total of 330 since its implementation. In the same sense, he reported that 58 manholes were dismantled, 2 were boarded up and a figure greater than 18,500,000 pesos was seized.
Meanwhile, D’Elía and Trezza reported on the operations against drug and micro-trafficking carried out in Montevideo and Canelones.
The Task Force integrates the Montevideo, Canelones and San José Headquarters, together with the National Police Investigations Directorate (DIPN) and the General Directorate for the Repression of Illicit Drug Trafficking.
