The fight against extortion of merchants in Barranquilla - Barranquilla - Colombia

Barranquilla It is the city in the country with the greatest blows to personal theft”. It is the balance that the Mayor’s Office and the Police provide when pointing out that the rate of this crime is the lowest among the main cities of Colombia.

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“Of every 100 extortions that have occurred in the capital of the Atlantic, especially against merchants, 96 have been clarified,” says the report.

The assertions were presented by the commander of the Metropolitan Police, General Luis Carlos Hernandez Aldanaand the head of the Office for Citizen Security and Coexistence of the Mayor’s Office of Barranquilla, Nelson Patron, during a summit of the National Police, in which he took stock of the frontal fight against crime.

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“Today the trade of Barranquilla is safer”, maintains the balance, in which the Police and the District maintain that this is due “to the permanent operations and the intelligence tasks in all the localities”.

Less theft than Bogotá, Cali and Medellín

In the security report that is presented from Barranquilla, it is ensured that the capital of Atlántico is the city that had the greatest containment of theft crime between 2020 and 2021, obtaining the lowest rate in this crime (25%), compared to Medellín , Cali, Bogotá and Cundinamarca, which had an increase of 30, 38, 29 and 35 percent, respectively.

Likewise, it was the second city in this ranking with fewer cases, being surpassed only by Bucaramanga. In their order, the cities with a number of cases greater than 18,000 in 2021 were Cali, Medellin and Bogota.

This is how the blows go to extortion

Since September 2021, the Police have captured 252 criminals linked to extortion, for an average of 1 to 2 per day.

Based on these investigations, the authorities have carried out 65 raids, which have not only allowed the resolution of the cases but also dismantled gangs, captured those involved and seized firearms.

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So far this year, at police gauze They have assigned 32 complaints of extortion, of which 25 have already been clarified, with captures of the criminals. Of those arrests, 13 were in flagrante delicto when the antisocials were preparing to collect the product of the intimidation.

The task has extended to the temporary detention centers and prisons in the country, where the authorities found probative material that links several detainees with calls to merchants throughout the city and ordered the transfer of 20 criminals to maximum security prisons.

“Since 2021, 27 large operations have been carried out that have affected criminal groups with the capture or neutralization of their ringleaders”, expressed General Hernández.

According to the Police, during 2022 neighborhoods such as Chiquinquirá, Montes, Centro, San Roque, La Magdalena, Alboraya, El Campito, Las Palmas, El Limón, Universal, Galán, Los Olivos, Simón Bolívar, El Ferry, among others

“Citizens will have news of 17 more operations that we are planning for the next few days,” said the officer.

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