The deputy director of the Criminal Investigation Service of Uíge, intendant Emília Teca Catombissa, yesterday urged the staff of that body to maintain close control over companies and houses purchasing ferrous material, resulting from the vandalization of public property.
The appeal was made during a weekly operational meeting that aimed to analyze the public security situation in that region of the country, having mentioned at the time that companies and houses that purchase ferrous material encourage the vandalization of public property and other crimes of a property nature.
“We are concerned regarding companies and houses that purchase ferrous material and scrap, which we can assume that many of these are encouraging the crime of reception, which may be the basis for committing crimes of vandalizing public property, as well as those of robberies and vehicle thefts”, he maintained.
The deputy director also said that cases of destruction of electricity transmission stations, public lighting and electrical cables, also, in some cases, stolen or stolen vehicles that are dismantled and sold in pieces, must be investigated.
