Ricardo Valdés on possible declaration of Emergency in Lima: "The Armed Forces do not investigate crime"

Updated on 01/18/2022 06:52 pm

For the former Deputy Minister of the Interior, Ricardo Valdes, the National Police must support the reasons why lime It must be declared an Emergency, since 4 fundamental rights will be violated. but that is not all, reiterates that the support of the Armed forces it cannot be to fight crime directly because they are not trained to do so.

“What does it mean to declare an emergency? according to the Constitution, it implies the suspension of certain guarantees, 4 of them; the inviolability of the home, the detention of the person without a court order, the right to free movement and the possibility of attending meetings (…) the National Police must give the arguments for which they are going to suspend the rights of all citizens of Lima, he indicated.

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The state of emergency also contemplates the accompaniment of the Armed Forces.

“The Armed Forces are not prepared to face insecurity, the members of the Armed Forces themselves have said so. Intervene directly in the prosecution of crime, I see it complicated. Nobody chases cell phone thieves with tanks. The Armed Forces do not investigate crime and they are not going to be able to intervene in the prosecution of criminals either because they are not prepared for it”, Valdes noted.