Five axes will apply the new Minister of the Interior, Juan Zapata, in the National Police.
Zapata was sworn in last Monday, September 26, as the new Minister of the Interior, at the Palacio de Carondelet, Quito’s historic center, replacing Patricio Carrillo.
The official pointed out that this State portfolio will be dedicated to the strategic area and the Police to the operational area.
The first axis will be citizen security, internal protection and public order. He explained that it will not only be for common crime, but also for threats such as organized crime, drug trafficking, arms trafficking, explosives, human trafficking.
Until 2025 the Police will not be able to have new generals in the institutional command according to the Law, says Juan Zapata, Minister of the Interior
The second axis refers to providing resources and announced that there will be a budget of $317 million to buy vests, weapons, ammunition.
In addition, until 2025 there will be acquisition of vehicles, construction of barracks.
It will be done through a special regime in an emergent way.
He announced that there will be workshops with police units to determine their specific needs.
Another axis is legal reforms and restructuring of the educational model of the Police with approaches to eradicate violence and rights.
He indicated that on October 14, 1,760 police officers will graduate and on October 30, 8,500 officers will enter with a new curriculum.
The fourth axis will be that of strategic communication of both the ministry and the police commanders.
Tonight Minister of the Interior will talk with the president about the situation of the head of the Police
“The concept of community policing, that outreach police, that obviously neighborhood police, that gave us such good results,” he said in an interview on Ecuavisa, about the need to rebuild public trust.
About the future of Police Commander Fausto Salinas, Zapata said that President Guillermo Lasso will announce it in the next few hours.
The president had given a deadline for the capture of Germán Cáceres, the main suspect in the murder of María Belén Bernal, his wife.
Cáceres is a police officer, he is a fugitive and about him there is a red notice from Interpol to search for him in almost 200 countries. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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