Armed Forces and National Police carry out joint controls to counteract the crime boom.
Since 06:00 this Tuesday, members of the Armed Forces are in the streets of Guayaquil and towns in other provinces of Ecuador, after the declaration of the state of exception announced by President Guillermo Lasso on the night of Monday the 18th. after a dozen violent deaths were recorded over the weekend, only in the city of Guayaquil. An 11-year-old boy even died in the middle of a shooting in an attempted robbery in the south of the city, which has shocked everyone.
The president announced that for 60 days the military will be patrolling the streets of the country, especially in the province of Guayas, the most violent. Lieutenant Humberto Velásquez, from the Marine Corps, arrived with at least 70 men from his unit and has already traveled to various points in the Guayaquil suburb conducting arms control until 10:00 this Tuesday.
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The uniformed men were located on Calle F, at the end of Calle 38. There, at the turnoff from the cemetery, buses, private cars, motorcycles and even tricimotos stopped. They asked the occupants for identification and checked criminal records.
If there is any news, call ECU911 or inform the Police, said Lieutenant Velásquez, who explained that they were going to tour the area of Trinitaria Island, Cristo del Consuelo and Guasmo, sectors where in recent weeks they have been registered. more than 20 murders.
In Los Ríos they waited for the declaration
Leonel Yunda considered the arms, ammunition and explosives control operation that was registered since Tuesday morning with military personnel from the Special Forces Group No. 26 Cenepa, stationed in Quevedo, to be positive.
“The intervention of the military in the streets seems excellent to me, that gives confidence to the merchant and the general public to develop their daily activities, these operations must be every day, not only because the president has declared a state of exception,” he said. the inhabitant of the Venus del Río parish.
Infantry Second Lieutenant Carlos Chuquisang indicated that these interventions were initiated to curb crime and lower the rate of violent events registered in that province and the rest of the country. “We check the vehicles that circulate on the streets where we carry out the operation, the review lasts about 30 minutes and then we move to another sector, for the moment that is the way we work, we will be throughout the canton and the others and other troops are already moving to other cantons in the province of Los Ríos, “he said.
The councilor of Quevedo Kerly García, who also chairs the Commission of the Citizen Security Council of the GAD in Rio de Janeiro, indicated that the declaration given by President Lasso is comforting, since this city leads the rates of violent events so far this year, at the provincial level, so on October 7, in a solemn municipal session, Mayor John Salcedo asked the President of the Republic to declare a state of exception in this canton of Rio de Janeiro. “There are good expectations regarding the controls that the Police and the military are going to carry out in the city and the province, they have our full support, the declaration is important because crime was gaining ground on us,” she said.
In parallel, Lorena Rojas, Quevedo urban councilor and president of the local Emergency Operations Committee (COE), said that mobility in the city is maintained. “In this canton the resolutions of the cantonal COE will continue to govern, at the moment there is no restriction of mobility and schedules to commercial establishments and entertainment centers and restaurants, yes, the capacity must continue to be respected,” he explained.
Emphasis on six fluminense districts
In Babahoyo, representatives of the National Police indicated that the actions to be implemented in conjunction with the Armed Forces and in coordination with the ECU911 are already being planned. “We will hold security tables with representatives of the municipalities to control streets and avenues, especially in the cantons where the highest number of criminal acts and violent deaths have been registered,” said the chief of the Los Ríos Subzone Police. .º 12, William Martínez.
In addition, he announced that the operations will be carried out with greater emphasis on the cantons considered conflictive such as Quevedo, Babahoyo, Ventanas, Buena Fe, Valencia and Puebloviejo.
Until October 19, according to statistics managed by the Police, There are 129 violent deaths in the province, while in 2020 there were 80, so Los Ríos It is part of the nine provinces intervened by the Armed Forces and the National Police, while in the rest of the country the actions are carried out through coordination between police officers and public entities.
In Manabi
The controls on the roads did not take the Manabitas by surprise, who since the night of Monday 18 knew of the deployment of members of the forces of order in the streets.
The Armed Forces, through the Western Operational Command No. 2, carried out arms, ammunition and explosives control operations on Flavio Reyes Avenue, in Manta, with the aim of guaranteeing the safety of citizens and avoiding criminal acts and complying with the state of exception throughout the national territory.
The Police also deployed personnel in different parts of the province. In Portoviejo, for example, controls were carried out in the Crucita road sector.
Juan Francisco Núñez, Governor of Manabí, pointed out that after the announcement made by the President of the Republic, Guillermo Lasso, controls were carried out, mainly in the police districts of Manta, Portoviejo, El Carmen, Chone and Pedernales.
Pablo Ramírez, commander of zone 4 of the National Police, pointed out that this entity will place its entire contingent in the province at the controls, which reaches 3,400 police officers.
Military in the center of Machaleño
Armed Forces personnel began with searches of citizens who were walking and those who were traveling on motorcycles in the center of Machala.
“Since the state of emergency came into force, the military command ordered the mobilization of personnel in the streets. “We have the disposition to carry out operations against the illegal possession of weapons and substances subject to control,” said Army Major Cristian Arias.
At 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday 19, a meeting is planned between the governor and authorities of the Police, Army and other representatives of the security table, with the purpose of coordinating combined operations to reduce crime rates and violent events.
In the province of El Oro there are 117 violent deaths, most of the cases have been concentrated in Machala. “The operations will be in hot areas where we have information that there are violent acts and drug sales,” said the governor of El Oro, Francisco Vera.
A total of 1,600 members of the Armed Forces are distributed in the province of El Oro, in the neighborhoods where the intelligence teams consider the highest crime rates. The interventions are given in combination with police units. (I)
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