A video is circulating on social media that shows when the National Civil Police (PNC) agents who were traveling in patrol car GUA – 12294 throw Garbage on the side of the La Parroquia marketlocated in zone 6 of Guatemala City.
The images show how a police officer, from the back of a pickup truck, loads a barrel and proceeds to turn it around to dump garbage on the public road.
The Minister of the Interior, Francisco Jiménez, responded to the video saying that he is requesting a report from the PNC on the incident.
“To throw Garbage on the streets causes the drains to become clogged and to a certain extent that is why there are floods.“, Jiménez expresses on the social network X (Twitter).
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Inspector Edwin Monroy, spokesman for the PNC, confirmed that the disciplinary proceedings once morest the crew of the police unit has begun.
“The procedure is in charge of the General Inspectorate“Monroy explained.
The police officers involved have been identified.
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Surveillance cameras capture the moment when a National Civil Police agent with patrol number GUA-12294, throws garbage on the side of the La Parroquia market #zone6 capital.
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“The agents (of the PNC) must be examples of civility“, the minister replied to a social network user.
He numeral 3 of article 182 of the Traffic Regulations It says that “for throwing or throwing garbage or other objects on public roads, from a parked or moving vehicle” the driver is obliged to pay a fine fine of Q 300.
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Amílcar Montejo, director of communications for the Municipal Traffic Police (PMT), commented that numeral 13 of article 183 is applied when people are recorded and flee the scene, which means a fine of Q 400.
“For throwing, launching or abandoning rubbish/objects on public roads that may impede traffic,” states the Traffic Regulations.
The Municipality of Guatemala reported in 2022 that it has 14 smart speakers in zones 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 11, 18 and 19as well as on main roads, roundregardings, areas of high vehicular traffic and spaces near municipal markets in order to eradicate clandestine garbage dumps.
The capital city implemented the “Smart Horn” project through the Municipal Monitoring Center -C4- so that through cameras and speakers alert people who leave rubbish on public roads.
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