translated from Spanish: Municipalities and the police seek to improve control of funerals “narcos”

the Secretariat for prevention of crime, Katherine Martorell, held a meeting with the police, prosecutors and mayors of municipalities affected by the so-called “funeral narcos”, in which agreed to carry out a protocol to deal with this type of events. The meeting occurs after the call of the Mayor of La Granja Felipe Delpin to curb this type of goodbyes, one of which was recorded in your community about one week ago, prompting fear in the residents who reported the use of weapons and items of artifice of a LTO scope. Although these facts are not new, they have become recurrent over time. “Within that, ask the LCS to give some priority in these cases to the delivery of the bodies, working a protocol of action with police to prevent when they know that there can be one of these funerals that generated so much fear in the population” , Martorell said. “Work very coordinated police with mayors, also research with the Public Ministry and the PDI about the origin of these Fireworks”, added the authority. Meanwhile, police said that it is working in disrupting these criminal gangs involved in these instances and also any restructuring in the Protocol of action by police on these facts.

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