A high-level interagency mission of the United States Government, made up of experts from the DEA and the FBI, began an intense work agenda this week in Lima to provide advice on what will be the design of the new national security plan.
The mission of specialists in criminal investigation, organized crime control and international cooperation came at the request of President José Jerí with whom he met this morning at the Government Palace along with ministers of State and security specialists.
The delegation will spend about 10 days in the country and will evaluate the crime panorama and provide technical assistance in matters of citizen security. To this end, it will hold coordination meetings with the ministries of the Interior and Defense, and the National Police.
As explained by Foreign Minister Hugo de Zela, the mission will carry out an exchange of “general” information on the evolution and dynamics of crime and then provide a diagnosis of the situation and suggest lines of action to confront it.
“What has been specifically asked of them are two things. One is that they make a diagnosis of the situation, that they help us have a different look, from another angle, of what the situation in Peru is regarding crime; and second, that they make some recommendations on how this problem could be faced,” said the Minister of Foreign Affairs, after this first working meeting.
Both inputs will be reviewed by the Ministry of the Interior and the Prosecutor’s Office to feed the construction of a national plan to combat crime. “The aim is not to import a foreign design,” the authorities stressed, “but rather to complement Peruvian work with additional technical perspectives.”
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