The Security operation will run until February 28 and its central axes will be focused on caring for the population on roads and tourist destinations, as well as crime prevention and mitigation.
“This is the closing of a special year, which had a virtue: having worked together. We met working and solving problems that we never thought we would have to face, especially at the beginning of the health emergency. Even so, that strengthened us as a government, because the government is one and there is no way to solve the problems of the population from a single ministry. It is always between all, between and between all, ”Minister Frederic began.
In order to face complex crime and provide security and care to the population, Frederic described that, as has been done since 2020, during this summer period work will be carried out in an articulated manner between the four Federal Forces and jointly with other Ministries. , such as Tourism and Transportation. The announced operations will be carried out on routes, in access to cities, bus terminals, train stations, ports, airports, in interjurisdictional zones and in dynamic control posts. In turn, Frederic remarked that the Operation will also be articulated with provincial forces, with the National Transportation Regulation Commission and with the National Road Safety Agency: “for us, as the President of the Nation, Alberto Fernández, maintains, the Security is a right and we will work for its compliance within the rule of law and the norms that support it, ”he said.
Mario Meoni, meanwhile, stressed that “in a year in which the President put emphasis on caring for the life and health of each Argentine, we cannot end otherwise”, after which he stated: “No We must relax, but the operatives are designed to take care of the people who are going to vacation as well as those who return to their cities. That is our mission. From our contribution we will be making available more than 650 people and more than 400 mobiles, always in coordination with the Federal Forces, which are our sustenance so that we can do our control work ”.
In turn, Meoni stressed that during the summer operation, work will be done on raising awareness about the use of seat belts, both in private vehicles and in buses, so that “those who travel by long-distance buses, get used to wearing the seat belt. security, in order to reduce claims ”.
The head of the Tourism and Sports portfolio, in turn, stated that “Having a good season depends on many things. Of course, the health situation. And in that I want to highlight the work carried out by agents of the Federal Forces, which has been extremely important during all these months. The management of Minister Frederic and the agents of the Forces has been put to the test and I think we can feel satisfied with what they have done this year ”. Matías Lammens also added: “tourism is a deeply redistributive, deeply federal activity, which allows our country to begin the path of economic recovery. We must not relax, we must continue to take good care of ourselves ”.
Some details of the Operation
The aforementioned preventive coordination referred to by Frederic will be carried out through control tasks that prevent the circulation and commercialization of chemical precursors, illegal drugs, smuggling and human trafficking, complex crimes that tend to increase in the light of criminal exploitation before a greater circulation that occurs in the main roads of the country.
To ensure the success of this Operational Safe Summer 2021, the Ministry has arranged a detailed record of each intervention by the Federal Forces, which must be collected and notified prior and after each operation and deployment. This provision will be applied in the 24 jurisdictions of the country to reinforce their security and ensure a preventive control of and towards the forces.
The head of the Security Portfolio explained: “this Security Operation is designed to accompany a different summer season, longed for and desired by the Argentines who spent a very hard year. We have the obligation to respond to the specific needs that occur at all times. We think about security holistically. We are here to prevent complex crime, crimes, drug circulation, human trafficking and other crimes that, in general, have national routes, ports and terminals as a critical area ”.
The deployment of federal forces will also imply strategic provisions in the cities with the highest tourist influx, which will increase during the weekends. There will also be the elite forces for a greater capacity to react to any criminal situation that requires their action. The workers of the Federal Forces will be managed through rotating shifts to preserve, as is one of the differential policies of this Portfolio, the welfare and rights of the personnel: the better the working conditions, the better the result and the service. that they lend to society.
Finally, and as a closing of his speech, Frederic concluded: “with this launch we want to give a message to the public of the importance of respecting all safety regulations when driving and also the rules and protocols that are associated with driving. beware of the pandemic. Our task is to protect, care for and accompany the other ministries that have more specific tasks related to tourism and transportation, and to support our forces and the more than 70,000 troops that are deployed in the territory. We want to tell these men and women of the Federal Forces to take care of themselves this summer, to circulate with caution, to rest and to comply with the safety regulations as it corresponds to each and every citizen ”.
The secretaries of Security and Criminal Policy, Eduardo Villalba, of the Federal Security Council, Gabriel Fuks, the Undersecretary of Quality, Accessibility and Sustainability of Tourism, Inés Albergucci, the Chief of Cabinet of the Ministry of Transport, Abel were present at the event. de Manuelle, the head of the CNRT, Jose Arteaga, and Juan José Bahillo, Minister of Production, Tourism and Economic Development of Entre Ríos.
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