“We have a considerable number of citizens who come from the sister Republic of Venezuela. We calculate that there are 1.6 million Venezuelans,” he stressed.
The president of Peru, Pedro Castillo, requested this Tuesday to evaluate the migratory situation of Venezuelans “who commit crimes” in the Andean country in order to face citizen insecurity.
During a session of the National Citizen Security Council (Conasec), Castillo reiterated his government’s commitment to the fight against crime. This was announced by the Presidency of Peru through a message posted on Twitter, where they specified that “Peru has a problem beyond citizen insecurity (…) The migration issue.”
“We have a considerable number of citizens who come from the sister Republic of Venezuela. We calculate that there are 1.6 million Venezuelans,” he stressed, to which he added that the country must take action on this issue and hoped that, after the council meeting, decisions would be made and that a “committed and positive message be sent to the country” on migration.
Likewise, the president pointed out that citizen insecurity is “a problem perceived both by children, as well as by young people and adults”, while reiterating his commitment to the fight against crime and advocating the deployment of teamwork to face her.
To this end, the authorities will evaluate reports and new strategies will be put in place to fight organized crime and thus improve the public’s perception of this issue.
The council will also address the actions carried out during the state of emergency decreed in Metropolitan Lima and Callao, which was extended for an additional 45 days from May 4.
At the end of the meeting, the Minister of the Interior, Denis Senmache, who has held his position since last Sunday, stated that they will launch operations “in those areas that have been taken over by criminals.”
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To do so, he will seek to hit “the bone marrow” of organized crime,” although he did not detail how they will do it.
Hours earlier, the Peruvian government made official the change of high command of the National Police, with the appointment of Lieutenant General Luis Vera Llerena as Commander General, after the surprising reform of the cabinet of the Castillo Government, which included the appointment of a new minister of the Inside.
Vera Llerena, who to date served as inspector general of the National Police of Peru (PNP), was appointed to the new position to replace Vicente Tiburcio, through a supreme resolution published in the official newspaper El Peruano.
With information from Eph
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