The Retiro Colonel Harvey Colchado denounced by x that the minister Juan José Santiváñez I would be looking to discredit your ascent with merit as an intelligence police who obtained 27 years ago and his ascent as Colonel PNP, which took place in November 2016. All this as a form of intimidation for not having aligned to the government’s requirements in relation to the case The Waykis in the Shadow.
“13 years ago, next to the Crnl. Walter Lozano (Bica) and an exceptional police team, we captured Comrade Artemio, dismantling the terrorist structure in the Huallaga and achieving a decisive blow against the Shining Sender,” and then explain that the success of the capture of Artemio was possible thanks to the application of effective collaboration procedures, as well as the execution of special research techniques (special agents, undercover operations, telephone interventions and preliminary judicial arrests).
In that line, the retirement colonel Harvey Colchado He warned that the fight against organized crime has weakened after the elimination of preliminary judicial arrest and the reduction of deadlines for effective collaboration and telephone interventions, promoted by Minister Juan José Santiváñez. According to the former head of the High Complexity Investigation Division (Diviac), these modifications allow dangerous criminals to remain released.
In its publication on social networks, Colchado recalled that in the Huallaga region, where it led operations against terrorism, there is currently no active terrorist group. This, according to him, was achieved thanks to the use of effective tools such as strategy, intelligence and research, as opposed to what he described as “improvisation from a desk.”
The former police chief urged the Government of Dina Boluarte to replicate its strategy in other areas of the country affected by crime. In a message addressed to the Interior Minister, Juan José Santiváñez, Colchado was emphatic: “This works with strategy, intelligence and research. Do not harm the country” In addition, he accused him of having favored investigated in the past and not allowing police specialists to do their job with strategic approach.
His pronouncement was accompanied by photographs that show his work in previous operations, in an attempt to reaffirm the importance of a fight against crime based on intelligence and planning, and not on the simple presence of troops in the streets.
Finally, he concluded his message by addressing Minister Juan Santiváñez: “If you want to rummage about me, find out how the work was done in the Huallaga, and maybe I can learn something.”
Harvey Colchado denounced being a victim of adjustment by the Government of Dina Boluarte
In an exclusive interview with The Republic, Colonel Harvey Colchado denounced being a victim of this way of monitoring and even having received death threats. “I have a lot of police and civilians who tell me that they (those of the government) are making me adjustment. They tell me to take care of me because they want to victim me. However, I am not afraid of them,” he said on that occasion.
In this regard, political scientist Jhimer Monzón, in conversation with this newspaper, warned that if the alleged adjustment or death threats are confirmed, it would be clear that we are facing a dictatorship of a group of power that uses resources to satisfy their political and economic interests . In addition, he pointed out that this fact could have a domino effect, making the image of the government unsustainable, since it would intensify the rejection and detachment of citizens towards the powers of the State.
