Editor’s Note: This note was originally published under the title ‘CNDH supports the hiring of former grenadier chief; there are no accusations against him, he argues.’ However, the CNDH stated that the communiqué was signed in the name exclusively of the 3rd. Visitator General, Hilda Téllez Lino, so this is the position of that civil service official, and not of the Commission as such.
The CEO of the 3rd. General Visit of the National Commission on Human Rights (CNDH), Hilda Téllez Lino, defended the hiring of Alvaro Sánchez Valdez, former director of the capital Metropolitan Police and the grenadier corps during the administration of Miguel Angel Mancera, known as Chief Neptune.
Animal Politics published this Friday that the CNDH, through its 3rd. He hired Sánchez Valdez, although under his command and management the grenadier corps of the capital police received multiple complaints, observations, and recommendations from the CNDH itself and the today Human Rights Commission of Mexico City (CDHCM) for human rights violations, abuse of authority, and arbitrary detentions.
However, Hilda Téllez Lino argued in a letter signed by her that in the different recommendations issued by the autonomous human rights organizations, Alvaro Sánchez Valdez is not directly mentioned, but the grenadier policemen who, according to the organization chart of SSPDF, were under her command.
“With regard to recommendations 16/2015, 17/2015, issued by the Commission on Human Rights of Mexico City, and the 15/2017 issued by the National Commission on Human Rights, it is not indicated (Alvaro Sánchez Valdez) with any direct imputation in the body of the documents, their annexes or the recommended points”, said Téllez.
On the contrary, the director of the 3rd. Visitaduría presumed that, during a 24-year career at SSPDF, Chief Neptune “received various accolades for his performance”, ignoring, however, public outings made by multiple civil society organizations, such as Article 19 or the Marabunta Brigade, which even publicly demanded the dismissal of Chief Neptune in the face of repeated attacks by grenadiers on activists and journalists in marches by the missing youth of Ayotzinapa, between 2014 and 2015.
On the other hand, Hilda Téllez also noted that in the record of non-disqualification, issued by the Secretariat of the Public Service prior to the hiring of Chief Neptune, it “has not been disqualed from occupying any employment, office or commission”.
“On the other hand,” he added, “no prior investigation or investigation folder was located that is pending.”
Finally, the director of the 3rd. Visitaduría noted that Chief Neptune works on his team developing “proposals for security protocols, safeguarding measures, analysis and prevention of risks in foreign proceedings for the work of the visitors attached to the Visitaduría General”.
Here the complete positioning of the 3rd. Visitorship:
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