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Police chief resigns for threats of the crime |
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| Police officers and experts, forensic scientists enlist to load the bodies of six persons murdered by drug traffickers in the outskirts of City Juárez, Mexico. Photo: AP. |
Julie Watson
Mexico / AP
The chief of the police of the biggest frontier city with the United States announced on Friday, the 20th his resignation to the charge, after which the organized crime should warn that if he was not resigning it would murder more reagents.
The secretary of Public Safety of City Juárez, Roberto Orduña, he informed his exit of the charge only a few hours after a command murdered a police agent and a guard of a prison.
The bodies had been marked by messages in which it was said that they had fulfilled the promise to murder at least a police officer every 48 hours until Orduña was resigning.
Orduña pointed out across a letter that it was not ready to put in risk the life of anybody more.
City Juárez, to 1.530 kilometers to the northwest of the city of Mexico, is one of the localities most affected by the violence attributed to the drug trafficking and the organized crime.
“ Before the events of this morning I took this decision”, told Orduña in a letter read by municipal authorities to the press.
“ It will not have to allow men who work for defending to the citizenship to keep on losing his life. That's why I presented my resignation with irrevocable character”, it added.
After announcing the resignation to him, mayor José Reyes, he made sure that the cleanliness in the institutions and the combat to the crime will continue.
“ We are not going to detain the cleanliness that was done to the interior of the police, but I do not want to exhibit the physical integrity of the police agents”, he affirmed.
The municipal authority foresees to name in the following hours a temporary chief of the police, and later there would be named the secretary of permanent Public Safety.
Orduña is major than the retired army who took up office like chief of the police in May, after his predecessor Guillermo Prieto resigned and fled to The Step, Texas, after the murder of the operations manager, a secondary one.
To guarantee the Orduña protection, the municipality constructed him a quarter in facilities of the Secretariat of Public Safety.
In long time the police of City Juárez have been an attacks object on the part of the organized crime, what has provoked the resignation of several agents.
The police officer César Iván Portillo was the fifth murdered agent this week.
The local authorities had already asked the police officers to be in “red alert”, what means that they cannot realize alone patrolling.
On Wednesday, the 25th some signs appeared with written messages to hand, in which it was warned that a police officer would die every 48 hours if Orduña was not resigning.
On Tuesday, the 24th, the bodyguard died and two turned out to be injured men when armed men attacked to shots the convoy in which the Chihuahua governor was traveling, one of the states of the north more affected by the drug trafficking in Mexico.
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Army to the streets in Honduras
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Freddy Cuevas
Tegucigalpa, Honduras / AP
The army went out to the streets to support the police to fight the increase of the violence in five regions of Honduras, which registered in 2008 more than 4.400 murders.
“ Initially we destine approximately 1.000 soldiers for this one operative for that we wait I helped to brake the high index delincuencial of the country”, said on Tuesday in press conference the chief of Operations of the armed forces, colonel Bartolomé Fúnez.
He informed that the task concentrates in the provinces of Atlantis and Columbus, to the north; Copán and Santa Barbara, on the west and Francisco Morazán, in the central area of the country.
“ For 30 days we will be in the streets, but if the president (Manuel Zelaya) gives a new order, then we will continue more time”, he warned.
Fúnez affirmed that the soldiers collaborate with the police in delinquents look, to check and to register vehicles and you present yourself, and to give pursuit to crimes, between other cases.
He made sure that “only we try to guarantee the peace and the safety of the persons and his goods”.
The measurement, which was started on Monday, the 23rd, is faced to protect Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula, the second city of the country to approximately 180 kilometers to the north of the capital.
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