More than 200 heavily armed agents were deployed last night in the La Fe expansion, in the joint Citizen Security operation, which included air support, armored vehicles and trucks of the General Directorate of Immigration, equipment that caught the attention of residents and passers-by.
After 5:00 in the afternoon, an Armed Forces combat helicopter began to fly over the sectors Kennedy widening, La Fe, Cristo Rey, La Agustina, Villa Juana and Nacowhich caught the attention of residents in the area and people who moved through the area.
The operation was supervised by the Unified Joint Command in Support of the National Police, whose supervisors were stationed at strategic points in the sector.
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Carrying long weapons, teams from the National Drug Control Directorate (DNCD), the National Police, Ciutran and other state security agencies traveled in trucks, vans and motorcycles through streets and avenues, including the Ortega y Gasset, Mauricio Báez, Peña Batlle, Máximo Gómez, San Martín, Pepillo Salcedo, Juan Alejandro Ibarra, Ramón Cáceres, Francisco Villa Espesa and Arturo Logroño.
On Pedro Livio Cedeño Avenue, on the corner of Ortega y Gasset, a checkpoint was set up and armored vehicles traveled through parts of those avenues and other streets in the sector.
In the vicinity of the intersection of avenues Máximo Gómez and Peña Batlle and the San Martínin the La Fe expansion, after 6:00 pm, reporters from this newspaper observed dozens of agents who ordered vehicles to stop, including motorcycles, who checked and dispatched them, as they did with some citizens.
In that same corner, several trucks from the Immigration Directorate were observed with detained people, many of whom were Haitian nationals, who were reported to be purged.
A large number of people gathered on Peña Batlle Avenue to observe the actions of the PN agents, the Army and personnel from the Immigration Directorate who they stopped passers-by and vehicles to search them.
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Residents who observed the operation said they supported the actions of the authorities to stop crimes.
Operations seek to curb crime
Representatives of the Joint Unified Command emphasized that the objective is “correct and prevent crimes” and that the operations are combined with residential patrols that are carried out 24 hours a day throughout the country, which intensify at night.
Units of the PN, the DNCD, Migration and the DR Army.
