He Ministry of Interior named in the new position of “security manager” for the State Health Services Administration (ASSE) to the former chief of the Flores Police and former director of the National Rehabilitation Institute (INR), Gonzalo Larrosa.
Larrosa was dismissed as director of the INR in November 2018, after it became known provided false information regarding the death of an inmate: the inmate had been shot to death by a security guard and not stabbed by another inmate, as the portfolio had indicated.
Furthermore, in March of this year, resigned as chief of the Flores Police in March after admitting in an administrative investigation that as director of the INR he accepted requests for prisoner transfers that the Frente Amplista deputy Susana Pereyra, wife of the late Interior Minister, Eduardo Bonomi, formulated.
Days before his resignation, the former national director of the Police, Mario Layera, had pointed him out as responsible for authorizing the 13 “conjugal” visits of the drug dealer Gerardo Gonzalez Valenciaalias “El Cuini”, who later ended up in secret meetings with the Italian mobster Rocco Morabito in Cárcel Central.
Meeting with ASSE
“We need an authority in the Ministry of the Interior so that make the corresponding connections with the police stationsthe commissioners of each of the sectors in the sense need for mobiles, personnel, etc., in different places”, explained to The Observerthe general manager of ASSE, Eduardo Henderson.
The public provider shared images on Twitter of a meeting between its authorities, the adviser to the Ministry of the Interior, Andrés Capretti, and Larrosa.
“Within the framework of Inter-institutional Cooperation Agreement between ASSE and the Ministry of the Interior In order to achieve maximum security in Hospitals, Polyclinics and other care centers and their respective environments in the department of Montevideo, ASSE authorities received today General Commissioner Lic. Gonzalo Larrosa, proposed for the position of Security Manager whose functions will be: Direct, coordinate, inspect and make decisions in common agreement with the ASSE – RAP (Primary Care Network) Metropolitan management team.”, say the tweets published by the account last Friday the 23rd.
Within the framework of the Inter-institutional Cooperation Agreement between #ASSE and the @minterioruy to achieve maximum security in Hospitals, Polyclinics and other care centers and their respective environments in the department of #Montevideo
?? pic.twitter.com/RT9qeABRMa— ASSE (@ASSEcomunica) June 23, 2023
What does the charge consist of?
Henderson explained that the decision to appoint a security manager began with ASSE’s Cerro Coordinated Center “which receives 1,300 gunshot wounds” a year, that is, about “three shots per day”; in addition to “other types of traumatisms”.
When there are “clashes between bars”, in different centers, but for example in the Hill, “relatives or friends of those wounded by bullets come from both sides” and “problems often arise in those places”Henderson noted.
“We determined that for give users greater security We officials already have to have someone who understands the security issue to help us with that. The request that I made to Minister Heber is that we needed the ministry to take the reins of the matter,” continuous.
“The minister determined in the first place that there was a reinforcement in the guard of the hospital of the Cerrobut we also coordinated with him a person who had the position of security manager, who was not only for Cerro, but also encompasses all that is the metropolitan area”, held.
Larrosa is in “direct contact” with the general management of ASSE from where they tell him what problems there are so that he “goes to those places to find the best solution professionally speaking.”
“For example, he is working at the Maciel Hospital,” Henderson said. “It was the first request we made of him with some security problems not only at the hospital but also in the hospital environment,” added.
