Accompanied by the director of the National Police, Diego Fernández, the Secretary of State held an update meeting with the headquarters command and publicly highlighted the management of the department’s police chief, Jorge Khazzaka, at a press conference.
After receiving the figures of the fight against crimes, he witnessed the actions of the personnel of the Departmental Anti-Drug Brigade and accompanied them in the tasks of boarding up a drug mouth that was carried out on that same day.
In this sense, the minister stressed that “every time a drug mouth is dismantled, a decrease is seen in all crimes related to this illicit activity, since money and objects obtained from theft and robbery are used to pay for that drug.”
In turn, he highlighted the downward trend of various crimes in the department such as cattle rustling, serious injuries, robberies and thefts, while anti-drug operations increased, noting that so far in 2022 45 mouths of crime have already been dismantled. drugs throughout Lavalleja.
