Emir Olivares and Angelica Enciso
Newspaper La Jornada
Wednesday, January 4, 2023, p. 6
The national security strategy has given results
, asserted the head of the Secretary of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC), Rosa Icela Rodríguez. While President Andrés Manuel López Obrador expressed his satisfaction because progress is being made in this matter that is so delicate and at the same time so important: that of guaranteeing peace and tranquility in our country
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The official stressed that as part of the actions against violence, so far this six-year term the federal government has responded to requests to change state prisons to others with greater security for dangerous inmates.
In order to maintain the governance of prisons, we have responded to transfer requests from 30 local governments. During this administration, 8,740 movements of persons deprived of liberty have been made, from state centers to federal centers, 4,058 of which were carried out in 2022.
The data was offered just two days after the massive escape in the Social Reintegration Center three of Ciudad Juárez, among whom is Ernesto Alfredo Piñón de la Cruz, the netleader of the criminal group The Mexiclesto which the federal government remarked that there was no request for the transfer of this subject from the Chihuahua authorities.
The Secretary of Security, together with her peers from National Defense, Luis Cresencio Sandoval, and from the Navy, José Rafael Ojeda, were yesterday at the morning conference of the federal president to offer a closing report for 2022 on the actions that have been undertaken against crime.
Rodríguez presented a graph in which he explained that so far in the six-year term – from December 2018 to November 2022 – the incidence of illegal acts in the federal jurisdiction was 30.1 percent lower. Thus, tax crimes fell 19.2 percent; financial ones, 18.4 percent, and against health, 15.1 percent.
In common law crimes, he said, intentional homicide had a 14.2 percent lower incidence so far in the current administration; femicide, 23.8 less; kidnapping, 69.2; theft in general, 20.4; vehicle theft, 40.5, and transportation theft, 6.3 percent. In the data presented by the official, extortion is the only crime that is on the rise in this government, with 18.2 percent.
For his part, the Secretary of the Navy reported that during 2022 the institution under his charge seized more than 1,253 tons of chemical precursors for the production of synthetic drugs, including fentanyl.
As part of the national security strategy, he added, the arrest of 5,321 alleged lawbreakers was achieved, whom at no time has human rights been violated
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Meanwhile, the head of the Sedena explained that last year, thanks to the intelligence work of the Mexican State, 542 were arrested relevant people
that are located as generators of violence.
Among them We have six leaders of criminal organizations, seven square chiefs, 12 regional chiefs, 15 cell chiefs, and 43 criminal organization operators, financial operators, logistics operators, the people who help them generate the economic conditions or develop their criminal activities.
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