During an interview with the journalist Milagros Leiva, the general commander of the PNP, Víctor Zanabria lashed out against retreat colonel Harvey Colchadospecifying that he defends the entire police institution, as it would not have resentment towards the PNP. In that line, he added: “I do not make mud to anyone, respect my institution. To the good and bad men who are in the institution. I have commanded them and I will continue commanding them. ”
In addition, he questioned the matchado trajectory and pointed out that, unlike him, who ascended by seniority, the colonel in retirement obtained his rise by prize. “They have not given me anything. Neither to us, nor to the command, so we will not talk badly about our institution or our beloved staff,” he emphasized.
His statements have generated controversy, as he would even defend infiltrated criminals in the National Police of Peru (PNP), as the officers that appear in a jacuzzi next to the members of the criminal band ‘Los Octos’.
These statements are given after the qualifiers provided by Harvey Colchadowho pointed it as the leader of a criminal gang and as one of the main responsible in his irregular passes to retirement. In addition, he linked it to the alleged cover -up of the fugitive Vladimir Cerrón, before the failed operating constants registered by the PNP.
Víctor Zanabria about the photo of officers with ‘Los Octos’
The general commander of the PNP assured that the photo disclosed in which 3 noncommissioned officers are seen together with 4 members of the octopuses, it was already known by the institution six months ago and it would be the crime infiltrated in the suburban spaces. “From a neighborhood, police officers are captured and this policeman has his neighborhood friend who becomes a criminal and then the policeman is assigned to the police station near his home and there they generate links,” said Zanabria.
In that line, he declared that the dissemination of photography has generated that the respondent location changes of the three involved be made, while they are investigated by the military jurisdiction.