Authorities emphasize professionalization of police forces and new technologies while preventing penetration in bordering areas…//
For the federal and state governments, the good security indexes in Yucatan increased investments here, which generated more than 70,000 jobs and the conditions that reduced crime in Yucatan and prevented the penetration of crime from Quintana Roo.
According to Gabriel Barragán Casares, director of the Crime Prevention Center of the State of Yucatan (Cepredey), in Yucatan there is a large shield that curbs the crime that operates in Quintana Roo, thanks to the coordination of the Ministry of Public Security (SSP) with the municipal police in the areas bordering the state of Quintana Roo.
“With the new investments in Yucatan, more than 70 thousand jobs have been generated in the last six years, so that the Yucatecans are finding employment in the State and at the same time it inhibits people from leaving the entity and returning with anti-social behavior”, he said.
For his part, Rubén Valdez Ceh, delegate of the Ministry of the Interior, said that the strengthening of institutions and police forces in Yucatan, with the support of the federal government, has kept the State protected from the penetration of crime from Quintana Roo.
He pointed out that the professionalization of the state and municipal police of Yucatan and the incorporation of new technologies guarantee confidence in the actions of the police corporations, which has led to lower rates of insecurity and crime in Yucatan.
“These conditions of prosperity, coupled with a high degree of administrative responsibility in terms of prevention and frontal combat of crime, have allowed Yucatan to be the entity with the least impact of the country in the areas of homicide, kidnapping, extortion, vehicle theft, robbery of homes and businesses, injuries and rape, according to the National Criminal Traffic Light of the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System,” said Valdez Ceh.
Therefore, he stressed, the perception of security in the state is greater than the rest of the country, since 70 percent of Yucatecans consider the State as safe and the national average is only 20 percent.
Text and photo: Jorge Euán
