Faced with the demands of the transporters, who carried out a strike throughout Limathe Executive held a meeting in which various measures were announced to combat extortion and contract killings. The most notable actions were presented by the Minister of the Interior, Juan José Santiváñez. Among them, the creation of the Immediate Response to Extortion Operational Group (Gorex), which will be under the direction of the National Police of Peru (PNP), and the promotion of a bill that proposes life sentences for those responsible for extortion.
However, these measures appear not to have been adequately analyzed, as they were questioned by the parliamentarian of the Popular Democratic Bloc bench, Susel Paredeswho indicated that this new Operational Group will have to be made up of police officers who will have to leave their current positions. “Minister Santiváñez has presented a special group of police officers to combat extortion when there is already an extortion and kidnapping unit. He is going to appoint a number of police officers, but To put them in this new group they are going to have to get it from somewhere“So, what saint has he undressed to hand over these troops to this supposed new unit,” he stated.
On the other hand, Paredes highlighted that the only favorable thing was the participation of prosecutor Chávez Cotrina, who is coordinating with Minister Santiváñez. “I do trust him (prosecutor Chávez Cotrina) and after the minister has told the Public Ministry everything, in the end he had no choice but to coordinate with them,” he explained.
Based on these statements, we can verify that within the Criminal Investigation Directorate (DIRINCRI), there is a kidnapping and extortion investigation divisionwhose communication telephone number, according to the PNP directoryis 942857398.
Why was the transport strike carried out?
The transport strike occurred as a result of the extortion of the various bus lines in Lima and the murder of drivers who decided not to pay the ‘quota’ to which they were subjected. This caused the transporters to decide to carry out a strike throughout Lima on September 26, in order to seek greater action from the Government. “We do not want more deaths (…) I feel indignant with this Government for what we are going through today. They do not care about caring for the bleeding population. Where do we live? It seems like no man’s land,” said Martín Valeriano, president of the National Association for the Integration of Transporters.
