Rosa Icela Rodríguez urges senators to advance in improvements to pacify the country

Andrea Becerril and Victor Ballinas

Newspaper La Jornada
Monday, January 31, 2022, p. 5

The Secretary of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC), Rosa Icela Rodríguez, demanded that senators from Morena include in their legislative agenda several reforms necessary to advance in the pacification of the country, among them criminalizing the sale of video games that promote violence and drug use and make it possible for the billions that are in frozen bank accounts for members of organized crime to be used to equip all the police forces in the country.

These are resources that are there, that no one claims and that could well be used to purchase vehicles, weapons, vests, uniforms, among other equipment to strengthen security institutions in states and municipalities.

When participating in the VIII Plenary Meeting of the Morena parliamentary group in the Senate, he stated that so far in the government of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, 13,400 million pesos have been secured and 36,000 bank accounts linked to organized crime have been blocked. and white collar crimes.

From the outset, the head of the SSPC pointed out that the results in terms of security they are very positive Y the foundations are laid for a different way of dealing with violence, with a focus on attention to the causes that generate insecurity and with respect for human rights and the dignity of people.

Accompanied by General Luis Rodríguez Bucio, commander of the National Guard, and other officials, she stressed that the members of the security cabinet We will never cross the line between serving the people and serving crime..

He then proposed to the Morena senators other necessary legal reforms. He mentioned that there a legal vacuum in the protection of children and adolescents who are victims of forced recruitment through social networks, digital platforms and video games to damage their integrity or involve them in illicit activities.

For this reason, he demanded that they criminalize the sale of video games to minors who advocate violence and crime or sponsor drug use.

The head of the SSPC also demanded tougher sanctions for those who store, distribute or market digital content related to child pornography. As well as returning to the federal Executive and the states the power to authorize the transfer of inmates from local centers to federal penitentiary centers.

He explained that currently this attribution is the exclusive competence of the Judiciary, through the execution judges, who decide on the origin of the transfers and their criteria do not always coincide with the needs of the penitentiary systems.

He noted that the prison authorities have the pulse of security in these centers. They know that a timely transfer, a reassignment of highly dangerous inmates helps to avoid risks that alter the governance of these facilities.

In her speech, the official reiterated that the strategy of this government of hugs and not bullets does not mean that we are crossed of arms and detailed the progress. He stated that crimes continue to decline, especially kidnapping and robbery in their different forms; intentional homicide was contained with a drop of 4 percent in the number of victims and hydrocarbon theft was reduced by 93 percent, with savings of more than 187 billion pesos in the last three years.