The president of Peru, Keiko Fujimori, announced this Sunday that her government will implement a very firm policy to confront crime and restore order in the country.
During a live broadcast through her social networks, the president pointed to her counterpart from El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, as a reference for this security strategy.
“Gladys tells me to follow the steps of President Bukele. Yes, very firm to restore order,” Fujimori responded to a comment from a netizen who wrote in the chat during the Facebook broadcast.
In her speech, the head of state also expressed her support for the police officers who participated in recent operations against criminal organizations and hitmen, and assured that her administration will accompany the agents and provide support within the framework of the law.
“I wanted to give this message of support to the National Police, to these officers who risk their lives to save ours, the citizens’, and to give a very clear message: our government will support, will accompany them, they are not alone,” she said.
Likewise, she pointed out that the police operations are part of a broader strategy against crime, where intelligence work will also play an important role, as reported by the Peruvian digital media Altavoz.
Fujimori also specified that her government has already made arrangements to improve the conditions of the police stations and anticipated that these repairs could begin “in the coming weeks.”
As the newspaper Panorama noted, security was one of the main pillars of the campaign of the daughter and political heir of the late former president Alberto Fujimori, and it regained a central place after her rise to power.
Among the proposals she had put forward before assuming the presidency was the construction of four new penitentiary facilities, along with a mega-prison intended for inmates considered highly dangerous, taking as a reference the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) of Bukele.
According to Perú 21, in the broadcast Fujimori also reported on a security coordination meeting with representatives of the Public Ministry that took place this weekend.
As she detailed, it included the National Prosecutor, Tomás Gálvez; the Supreme Prosecutor Patricia Benavides and, on the Executive side, the Prime Minister Luis Galarreta and the Ministers of the Interior, Defense, and Justice, as well as the general commander of the National Police, Oscar Arriola.
At the meeting, the head of state questioned the lack of coordination that, she claimed, previously existed between the institutions responsible for combating crime, according to Perú 21.
“What has happened in recent years is that these institutions did not work jointly,” she stated, adding that work is underway on the development of a joint protocol and that deficiencies in these entities were identified during the meeting.
Likewise, she announced that she hopes to hold a similar meeting with the Judiciary and emphasized that her government will respect the autonomy and independence of the branches of government, although it will seek to collaborate with the agencies.
