SNAI indicated that officials Fausto R. (former director) and Joffre G. have already been notified about the termination of the appointment of free removal.
From this Saturday, November 27, the colonel in passive service Mario Augusto Mendieta will be in charge of the Guayas Center for the Deprivation of Liberty (CPL) No. 4, indicated the National Service of Comprehensive Attention to Adults Deprived of Liberty and Adolescents Offenders of Ecuador (SNAI).
According to said instance, officials Fausto R. (former director) and Joffre G. have already been notified about the termination of the appointment of free removal.
The removal from the position would be because on Friday night the then director Fausto R. was mobilizing with alcohol breath in a vehicle that hit a police car on the road to Daule.
“The National Police intervenes, the collaboration of the CTE was requested. But the former director of this center was aggressive in trying to attack the traffic officers. For this reason, the Police apprehended him for verbal confrontation and attempted physical assault. It was known that he was leaving the detention center. Then the hearing was held and he publicly apologized to the uniformed man, they reached a conciliatory agreement to be released, “said Colonel Christian Gallardo of Dinased.
The Guayas Regional, as said prison is known, is at km 17 of the road to Daule, next to the Litoral Penitentiary, where during the first half of November a massacre was recorded that caused the death of more than 60 inmates who they were there.
Two states are in force: for prison emergency and exception to crime wave
Between 2020 and this year there have been several murders inside the Penitentiary, as a result of the confrontation between criminal gangs that are fighting for control of the prisons, according to government authorities.
Last February, a fight was registered at the Guayas Center for the Deprivation of Liberty (CPL) No. 4 that resulted in the death of an inmate, the SNAI indicated.
Currently a state of exception is in force that allows the Armed Forces to collaborate in the control of prisons, under the parameters of the Constitutional Court, in the face of the prison crisis. That regime will continue until this Monday.
An inmate was murdered in the Guayas deprivation of liberty center
Another state of emergency, in force from Thursday, November 18 to December 19, governs nine provinces and allows the Armed Forces to join control operations to guarantee citizen security. (I)
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