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The mayor of Bogotá, Claudia López, asked the national government to reconsider the decision to gradually dismantle the Traffic Police, to replace it with civil guards. Of course, the District has the pilot plan ready that will begin to operate as of January 2021.
The plan consists of the gradual entry of at least a thousand civilian agents, or what 20 years ago was known in Bogotá as the ‘chupas’ and whose figure will revive to replace the Traffic Police.
Although the city is ready to take this step, Mayor Claudia López asked the Ministry of Defense to rethink this decision: “We would prefer that the Traffic Police continue to be Traffic Police. It helps us sometimes on traffic issues and sometimes on surveillance issues (…) We call for this decision to be reconsidered. It is not the best; if they impose it on us, then it’s up to us. “
For the former mayor of Bogotá Paul Bromberg, mobility also has very serious problems, and in this sense, the Traffic Police plays a fundamental role: “the exercise of police authority against the citizen is part of the uniformed police. It is much more effective in the face of the Police, who do not have that condition of being really a police officer, but rather a police authority with many restrictions ”.
Eduardo Behrentz, vice-rector of the Universidad de los Andes, assures that, although this was a figure highly questioned by acts of corruption, from which the current police also do not escape, the truth is that we must look carefully that the remedy does not out worse than the disease and invited “we use alternative tools so as not to use so many traffic policemen. For example, the use of technology”.
On February 28, the contract with the Bogotá Traffic Police expires and it will be renewed with fewer personnel while the replacement is made definitively.
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