After a weekend where 18 murders were reported in Guayaquil, the mayor of the city, Cynthia Viteri, complained to the National Government about the constant increase in insecurity and the lack of effective public policies to combat crime.
Viteri recalled that the Municipality of Guayaquil has allocated around USD 24 million for the provision of tools, such as drones, cell phones and gasoline for vehicles, despite not being its competence; and, even so, there have been no positive results for the city.
“Use what we have given you to fight crime. Catch the criminals, protect the people is what we Guayaquileans demand, once we have given them the necessary tools from 911 Guayaquil, to gasoline. Give people results, which is what they are waiting for,” the official stressed.
In the same way, she asked for concrete decisions to be made to combat crime because lately only “pyrotechnic decisions” have been made, after the problem explodes.
“There must be a security policy for the country, it is not that an event occurs and they send a thousand policemen, and then the thousand policemen leave because they are needed elsewhere,” she added.
In the first days of the year, only in Zone 8, which makes up Guayaquil, Durán and Samborondón, violent deaths have tripled, in relation to the same period last year.
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