“The numbers are very clear. In 2019 there were 152 abuses, in 2020 there were 158, and in 2021 they dropped to 134. It means that the official data on physical abuse from police actions is less”, explained the Secretary of State in statements to the press.
“Annoying when you want to build a sensation on those complaints. Bring us the complaints, the facts and the data so that we can take action,” Heber said.
He said that public defenders do not address the Ministry of the Interior or the Prosecutor’s Office. “They go by letter to the Supreme Court of Justice and then to the Human Rights Institution and they don’t come to tell us: ‘these are the crimes, these are the accusations of abuse of police functions’.
“Don’t public defenders believe in the Police?” questioned the head of the Interior.
A few days ago, the Association of Public Defenders presented a report to the Court of Justice stating that there would be a hundred allegedly irregular police procedures in which the guarantees of the detainees would have been violated. Situations that were classified as: police abuse, police mistreatment, illegal detention, search without warrant, injuries and lack of medical care.
“How can we investigate a generic thing. I would like to see what the complaints are, where they are, and what episodes they refer to in order to carry out an investigation”, he stated.
easy trigger
He rejected that from the opposition it is said that the Law of Urgent Consideration (LUC) “was going to be a trigger for abuses of police functions and easy trigger.”
In this sense, he assured that prior to the LUC “there were 47 deaths from police actions and after it was approved, 33 cases were registered.”
