This Thursday at the Engativá Local Mayor’s Office, a Security Council was held within the framework of the strategy of Institutional reinforcement #JuntosCuidamosBogotá #JuntosCuidamosEngativá, carried out by the District Administration.
“This week we concentrated the work in Engativá. Since Monday we have been carrying out work to strengthen security, this locality has many challenges and challenges in this matter”, said the mayor Claudia López.
The president highlighted the coordinated work between the District Administration, the Bogotá Metropolitan Police and the Attorney General’s Office, which has allowed intervene in prioritized points of the locality to attack the chain of crimes.
Below is a trill with which the mayor, Claudia López, shared some of the security strategies that will be implemented in Engativá:
In Engativá we will have a new URI in La Granja and a new House of Justice to guarantee better attention and more services to local women. The crime of domestic violence has decreased and we will continue on that path. #JuntosCuidamosBogotá#JuntosCuidamosEngativápic.twitter.com/M1A7aArelv
– Claudia López Hernández (@ClaudiaLopez) January 27, 2022
“We just had a Security Council with the commander of the Metropolitan Police, the commander of the Local Police, the Prosecutor’s Office, all the entities, and we have agreed to expand the House of Justice and bring it closer, to the URI of Engativá”, indicated the Mayor.
He added that, in addition, the Prosecutor’s Office was asked to explore the possibility of expanding the (URI) of La Granja because it currently does not have the Legal Medicine service, “A URI without the Legal Medicine service is like having a hospital without the emergency service”.
In the Security Council, the director of Legal Medicine, Jorge Arturo Jiménez, promised that next March the Legal Medicine point in the Engativá URI will work once more. This, said Mayor López, will allow “having this service to clarify the acts of violence, injuries, sexual violence and domestic violence that arise and require this service for prosecution.”
The mayor affirmed that during the last months the operations have intensified in several prioritized points of this locality with a foot of force of 485 members of the Police. “Last year we had 300 members of the Police, so it has been a significant increase, and we have achieved several important judicial actions to dismantle criminal gangs, in neighborhoods such as Luis Carlos Galán, Unir, Engativá Pueblo where there seem to be disputes between criminal gangs,” he explained.
In the Security Council, it was agreed with the Prosecutor’s Office and the Sijin dismantle in the first quarter of this year the criminal gangs that are affecting the security of the town.
“Without giving more details so as not to interfere with the research work, but there is a commitment so that in the first quarter of this year let us achieve the dismantling and prosecution of those gangs that have been under investigation since last year and control the crime of homicide, especially contract killings,” assured the president.
In this locality, in addition, the House of Justice will be expanded to guarantee better attention and more services to the women of this locality. “The crime of domestic violence has decreased and we will continue on that path”, Claudia López pointed out.
For her part, the local mayor of Engativá, Ángela María Moreno, said that in this local reinforcement strategy, Cell phone sales operations have been carried out, as well as inspection and surveillance of bicycle shops. “We have a great challenge with bicycle theft, although today we have a reduction of 14 percent and this is thanks to the inspection operations that we have carried out in recent days,” he said.
Inspection and surveillance operations have also been carried out on recycling warehouses. “We have been doing a whole job of raising awareness with truck drivers and recyclers so that they do their job properly,” explained the mayor Claudia López.
At the end of the Security Council, the mayor referred to the actions that have been carried out by the Government District Secretariat to beautify and recover public spaces, green areas. He said that it is important that the community itself takes ownership of these spaces: “When we have citizens in these spaces we manage to displace crime”.
