More than a month after assuming the presidency of Peru, José Jerí decided to maintain for 30 more days the 2019 citizen security plan created by the Government of Martín Vizcarraa strategy proposed for five years and that although it had to be modified in 2023, it was maintained for two more years, reflecting the inefficiency and disinterest of the authorities in the fight against extortion and homicides.
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“In 2013 in the middle of the year they made a five-year plan that was from 2013 to 2018 and in 2019 they made another one until 2023, but in 2024 there was no longer a plan and this year neither. That is, there were two years in which there were no security plans and that is why crime increases,” explained the former general of the PNP, Eduardo Pérez Rocha.
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Knowing this context, the interim president, José Jerí, opted for a criticized continuity: he kept the previous strategy unchanged, including the questioned use of state of emergency for 30 days, a measure whose recurrent application has not managed to reverse citizen insecurityto. As a consequence, during his first month in the highest office of the State, 180 deaths due to homicide and dozens of extortions were recorded in vital sectors such as schools, businesses and public transportation.
Instead of acknowledging your mistake by holding on for another month the ineffective security plan in your practiceJerí chose to “wash his hands” by ensuring that he will consider repealing it. “We have a current citizen security plan, in my opinion far from reality and which in practice does not serve us (…) evaluate to repeal that plan that is in force“, he expressed addressing the Minister of the Interior, Vicente Tiburcio.
He added that the new strategy will take as an example the security plans used during past governments: “Plans like those of 2013 or 2018, which had a different logic, much more operational,” said Jerí, specifying that the criticism he made was also made when he was a congressman, so why did he continue for a month with a security plan previously criticized by himself?
For former PNP general Pérez Rocha, this would be nothing more than a populist measure that will not be fulfilled: “We are already in October and this plan has to be approved by all the members of the National Citizen Security Council (Conasec). There is no time, here, no idea what citizen security is.”
In addition, Pérez Rocha also specified that Jerí would seek to imitate the tactics and image of the Salvadoran president, Nayib Bukele, just to gain popularity. “He is trying to copy the actions and activities that Bukele does in El Salvador,” he asserted. As evidence, he mentioned details such as clothing (“white shirt and rolled up sleeves”) and the announced tender for penitentiary centers with standardized uniforms.
For its part, Wilfredo Pedrazawho was Minister of the Interior during 2013, advised that “a plan is useful to the extent that it is not tremendous in its goals, that it has a budget and that it is executed.” He stated that the virtue of his year’s security plan was that Abstract goals were not set, but specific goals.: equipment, vehicle purchases, reduce crime rates. “Reasonable goals (…) The 2013 plan is much more real and that is why it was carried out,” he added.
Why did they wait 7 years to propose changing the security plan?
Wilfredo Pedraza, former Minister of the Interior, indicates that there are three reasons: “The authority in power during the last 10 years has had very little time to do anything, they have not been interested in the plan and most importantly, they have not had the capacity to spend, for example, the Ministry of the Interior, 30 days ago had only spent 20% of its budget on purchasing equipment for the Police,” he revealed.
When asked about the work of José Jerí against citizen insecurity, Pedraza specified that the 30 days must be considered after declaring the state of emergency. However, he did agree that the current security plan must be derived.
“If a plan is not implemented in 10 years, it means it has no value or it was not applied. I think reformulating it seems like a good idea. It can be done now to leave it as a working document for the next government,” said former Interior Minister Wilfredo Pedraza.
