The governor of San Juan, Sergio Uñac, and the head of the National Agency for Controlled Materials (ANMaC), Natasha Loizou, signed this Wednesday a agreement by which the Cuyo province adhered to the initiative to recover and destroy weapons in its territory.
In the act carried out in the Government House, San Juan entered the Firearms and Ammunition Destruction, Removal and Voluntary Surrender Program“in continuity with the development of public security policies in the province.”
This was stated by the provincial president, who highlighted the creation of the Secretary of State for Public Security during his tenure “with the aim of providing San Juan society with multiple state security services.”
The governor also explained that “profound transformations were carried out in San Juan in the legal system, which needed modernization and the possibility of ‘upgrading’ to the challenges of Justice, which is what society demanded.”
We want to build a peaceful and violence-free society, which is why we signed an agreement with the director of ANMaC, Natasa Loizou, to implement the National Program for the Voluntary Delivery of Firearms, which makes mobile points available to all to deliver weapons. pic.twitter.com/WDI2GzXnCa
– Sergio Uñac (@sergiounac) April 19, 2022
Uñac highlighted the joint work of the three powers of the State “to fulfill these obligations to society”, and considered the signed agreement very significant, since, he maintained, it allows “providing better services for the San Juan society.”
At the event it was announced that “San Juan will destroy some 2,500 weapons seized by justice.” The president of the Court of Justice of the Province, Juan José Victoria, and the Secretary of State for Security and Public Order, Carlos Munisaga, participated.
Batasha Loizou explained that the national program “is a comprehensive project with a constant dynamic” and that “when San Juan enters the program, an adequate policy regarding criminality and public security is guaranteed.”
He said that San Juan “is one of the first provinces in which ANMaC begins to recover its federal presence after the pandemic, to start receiving weapons seized for crimes, judicial systems and the armed forces.”
