Security specialist: “We need more police, we need better police”

Advocate Enrique Castro Vargasexpert in managing violence, crime and citizen security, believes Peru needs more police officers, but with better preparation; to fight crime, a scourge that is currently hitting the country hard.

IN News Extensionthe expert warned that currently in Peru There is one police officer for every 400 inhabitants, while the recommended average is 250.

“We need more police, yes, we need better police. For this reason, the process of training and education is being improved, but it is not true that we stopped the investigation or stopped doing police intelligence,” he commented.

“Police officers who have not been retrained do not have difficult training periods. We must push for the retraining of the police,” he added.

The specialist warned that “quantitative” information is used in preventive work, and “qualitative” information is left aside.

“Preventive Patrol, integrated patrol, in our country it is automated based on complaints; and complaints are practically not collected in 13%. (…) It is a partial reality because we do not see the whole phenomenon,” he warned.

On the intervention of the armed forces

at another time Enrique Castro Vargas was against Armed forces join the police patrol and Serenazgo against the insecurity of the citizens.

“International experience with heavy arm augmentation has not produced consistent results over time. The increase in firearms in security policy increases the number of deaths and injuries,” he said.

In this regard, he pointed out that with the increase in “punishability”, the number of people in the pre-trial detention center increases, which, unfortunately, do not resocialize. “A person who entered for possession or petty theft and is in prison for six months no longer leaves with the same criminological characteristics, he has an increased criminological risk,” he said.