The Minister of Defense of Peru, Rafael Belaúnde Llosa, has assured that the Armed Forces will take over perimeter control of the country’s penitentiary centers and monitor the borders as part of the fight against “citizen insecurity,” so they “will no longer have a decorative role.”
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Thus, he explained that this includes the implementation of surveillance systems to guarantee security, which includes the use of drones in prisons. “The Armed Forces will not have a role, let’s say, decorative, or just accompany the Police without being able to do anything. So, there are concrete things we are going to do, we are going to take perimeter control of the prisons, there we will have a contingent to control the entry of everything, including the staff of the National Penitentiary Institute of Peru (INPE),” he declared.
“Everything will go through that control, we will have scanning equipment, metal detection equipment, we will have our own systems to block cell phone signals,” he pointed out, according to information from the RPP radio station.
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Likewise, he explained that the current legal framework is “almost prohibitive” for capturing and expelling undocumented foreign citizens linked to illicit activities, “which is why the Keiko Fujimori Government will include, in the request for legislative powers, the modification of the rules to speed up these processes.”
“We are going to request several modifications, how hostile groups are classified. What is a hostile group? If you go to the border with Ecuador, right? ‘Los Choneros’ is this criminal organization, in Ecuador they are a hostile group; on the Peruvian side, they are a criminal organization. Today the legal framework is almost prohibitive to capture and expel them from Peru,” he warned.
