Concerned regarding the constant reporting of violent acts in Honduras, the members of the Council of Former Officials of Government Management 2014-2022that is, during the administration of the former president Juan Orlando Hernandezwho also said they felt persecuted.
Through a public statement, the former officials assured that when they took over the reins of the country, in 2014, they found figures of “86 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants”, but that in 2021, following eight years of management, it was possible to reduce to 38.6 deaths per hundred thousand inhabitants.
But they said they were concerned because in recent months the incidence of extortion, kidnapping, murder, robbery, among other crimes, has increased.
“Today we have a setback in terms of security, with alarming figures that affect life, physical integrity, property and the economy,” they argued.
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They also argued that due to their multiple actions to stop the crime wave in those years, they now feel “unfairly persecuted and questioned, by those dissonant voices of some groups,” whom “with their silence” they considered “accomplices.” of what is currently happening.
The Council argued that some of its effective measures to combat crime were the creation of the National Inter-Institutional Security Force (Fusina), the Public Order Military Police (PMOP), the National Directorate of Investigations and Intelligence (DNII), the National Antimaras and Gangs (FNAMP), the Technical Criminal Investigation Agency (Atic)among other.
In the same way, they highlighted the incorporation of approximately 10,000 new police officers, a significant number of new judges, prosecutors and other justice operators, as well as a police purge, which would be without effect with the restitution of some 2,000 police officers who were accused. of different faults.
“Who is behind all this? Why are sectors of civil society silent? We warned him as he did at the time former president Hernandezsecurity cannot be neglected for a single moment in the country,” they concluded.
