The trust of the Venezuelan people in the Public Ministry (MP) has increased in recent years, due to the level of response by this autonomous body, said the Attorney General of the Republic, Tarek William Saab, this Sunday.
«The number of complaints has grown, because there is confidence that the person who denounces will be heard, that he will not be persecuted. We have recovered the institutionality in favor of the people, ”said Saab in an interview for a national media.
According to the Venezuelan News Agency (AVN), the prosecutor assured that the key to achieving this achievement has been the approach of the MP to the citizens.
In this sense, he mentioned the program “Public Ministry goes to your Community”, in which the entity’s workers, accompanied by prosecutors from each state, travel to the country’s communities to provide direct assistance to citizens.
He specified that, in 12 days that the program has been carried out in approximately four months, care has been provided to just under seven thousand people, of which one thousand 265 managed to make formal complaints that are criminal in nature and five thousand 536 received guidance prosecutor or were referred to a competent entity.
Likewise, he pointed out that most of the complaints that are formalized in these sessions do not correspond to serious crimes such as fraud, robbery, kidnapping, among others; but to things that are closer to people’s lives and their daily lives, such as domestic violence and child support by mothers or fathers.
In addition, he highlighted the results of the Plan for Approach and Immediate Attention to Citizens, which since August 24 has allowed more than 1,600 citizens to come forward to file complaints. This plan consists of the provision of spaces for MP officials to serve citizens directly outside the prosecutor’s offices at the national level.
He pointed out that in this modality it has been observed that the complaints correspond to personal injuries, psychological violence, harassment, threats, fraud, among others.
On the other hand, the prosecutor mentioned that the measures applied by the Venezuelan State against police malpractice –which include the call on citizens to record these irregular acts on video– have resulted in a notable decrease in crimes of torture, violence and other crimes. forms of human rights violations by Venezuelan police officers.
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