IN NOTIGRUPO’S LOCAL NEWS, METROPOLITAN POLICE, READY; ALL POLICE LEVELS SHOULD BE SUPERVISED; STATE DEPUTY ENRIQUE FLORES’ LEGISLATIVE PRIVILEGE STRIPPING PROCESS, CONTINUES.
Metropolitan Police, ready
General Arturo Gutiérrez, State Public Security Secretary, informed that the Metropolitan Police will start operations this following Wednesday.
The announcement was made as San Luis faces its most serious security crisis in the last years.
This new force will be made up of 500 policemen, patrol car units (one of them armored), motorcycles, firearms and equipment.
General Gutiérrez pointed out that this new police force, will help lower crime in the metropolitan area of San Luis Potosí and Soledad.
All police levels should be supervised: City Police
Saúl García Rodríguez, provisional chief of San Luis Potosí city police, said that the department hasn’t been notified of a supervision operation similar to the one that happened in Soledad, by the Immediate Reaction Force (Fuerza de Reacción Inmediata FRIM), «But we’re open to it», he confirmed.
Chief Rodriguez was emphatic in expressing the need for preventive measures to avoid police corps infiltration by organized crime, «But these supervisions have to be made to all police levels, not only municipal police corps», he mentioned.
About his not having an official commision as Police Inspector General, he mentioned that it does not affect, in the event of a possible supervision.
Congressional commision work to strip Deputy Flores of legislative privilege, continues
After several hours of joint commision work in the State Congress, deputies determined that there’s sufficient proof to continue the ‘stripping’ process of legislative privilege from Enrique Flores, deputy on leave.
According to Congress legal aides, Flores has to be presumed innocent and proceedings have to be done privately.
If the full Congress votes against the stripping process in a private session, the project will be returned to commissions for further analysis.
