The spokesman for the National Police, Diego Pesqueira, assured that they are working on the structuring of the new Specialized Anti-Noise Directoratewhich has not yet been assigned a director.
This designation is a fundamental element to determine the official start date of this recently created Directorate, which will operate in substitution of the department that was in force to more effectively control noise pollution.
Complaints will be received through the 911 system and from there processed to the National Police.
“911 receives the calls and immediately passes them on to us. We are going to work in a coordinated manner, ”he indicated.
Pesquiera predicted that “there will be talk of a before and after anti-noise actions, because this will operate throughout the national territory.”
The commissioning of the Anti-noise address was one of the points discussed during a meeting last Friday, headed by Vice President Raquel Peña, in which an assessment was made of the criminal acts and comparisons were made of the months of January, February and so far in March in relation to same period in 2022.
Organizational structure
According to the proposed organization chart, the new Anti-noise address It will be a direct dependency of the Central Prevention Directorate.
It will have three large divisions: the Anti-Noise Operations Department, which will be made up of the Operations Division against sonic pollution and the Investigation and Inspection Division.
there will also be Animal Protection Departmentwith its Division of Operations and the Division of Regional Attachments and the Department of Damage Control to Public Spaces with its respective division of operations.
On March 6, the director of the Police, Eduardo Then, announced that legal sanctions will be impeded in accordance with the “damage caused to people, the environment and natural resources”.
More than 80 thousand seizures
Since 2020, the country has seized 83,614 sound equipmentamong which are low caissons and plants, according to data from the Specialized Attorney for the Defense of the Environment and Natural Resources.
“Noise pollution occurs at all levels of society. We have complaints in all sectors,” he said. Francisco ContrerasEnvironment Attorney.
