Ruben Vargas: “A year after the government came into office, there is no strategy to combat organized crime”

Ruben Vargasformer Minister of the Interior, in dialogue with RPP Newscriticized the current leadership of President Pedro Castillo in matters civil security and fight against crime organized. According to him, there is “no strategy” in the country to solve these problems.

“I contend that Pedro Castillo’s government and the prime minister are the main factors that fuel the feeling of insecurity among citizens. And I say this because in more than a year of the existence of the government, we have absolutely no strategy a clear way to tackle the problem of organized crime, or some kind of strategy to combat the illegal economy that fuels it,” he said.

In addition, he said that there are no strategies against the insecurity of citizens, so “gangs, racketeers, those who kill to steal a mobile phone” are only “the visible part of a huge iceberg that drags us into absolutely critical situations.” “.

“The domestic sector is in the worst condition”

Ruben Vargas the interior sector is considered to be in its “worst moment” since the 90s due to shortcomings in the leadership of the Peruvian National Police (PNP).

“There is also a serious problem in the PNP: there is absolutely no leadership in the institutional command, and this is a consequence of the goals that the government has and those that it sets for the police for its investigative purposes. cases corruption. Organized crime is mainly fought with intelligence, followed by other components. But the central strategy should be pursued by the PNP hand in hand with the Ministry of Public Administration,” he explained.

In this sense, he believed that the current high command of the PPP was unsuitable for said positions due to the serious issues attributed to them.

“In the PNP, there is a serious problem with the leadership and the north. The newly appointed police department, the chief of staff, is involved in the theft of fuel, in a “death squadron”, as a result of which more than 30 people died. How can we be? with organized crime, if part of the police command has its own problems?

Also, Ruben Vargas believed that successive “states of emergency” issued by the executive branch were only “measures populistsand are ineffective in the fight against crime.

“The state of emergency was a measure populist which was resorted to in several regions, and it was not only so useless, but also devoid of any technical content and any clear north. Because the state of emergency, finally, is a restriction of the fundamental rights to solve the problem. Does it help in some criminal cases? Yes, but what is the strategy, what are the institutions involved going to do? There is no north, no road map,” he said.

Finally, he asked the candidates in the municipal and regional elections to “take a serious look” at the issue. insecurity citizen and not fall into demagoguery in his proposals on this matter.

“The problem is also exacerbated when we now see some candidates for the provincial municipality of Lima making proposals as if they were running for the Lima police station or for the post of Minister of the Interior, promising to catch 200-300,000 criminals daily. our politicians need them to take a serious problem seriously insecurity citizen. Fraudulent advertising, demagogic advertising does not solve problems, and the population is losing confidence,” he said.

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