Record in pandemic: 528 appearances in Bogota’s Halloween

The figure presented by the District Security Secretary, Hugo Acero, covered the long weekend lived in the capital of the republic that connects the popular costume party with the religious commemoration of the feast of all the dead. Acero emphasized that: “There are 528 appearances, an important number, basically because we did it on Friday night and yesterday. It was mainly the rumba areas and some nearby establishments that were not complying with the measures”. The same man who said that he did not watch newscasts in the morning to avoid stress, stressed that the behavior during the celebration on Saturday was exemplary; However, criminality did not stop when it came to drug trafficking in the capital: “Definitely the children did not go out into the street, it is something very good, they accepted the recommendations that were given from the Municipal Mayor’s Office and it was easier for us to exercise the control activity, as more than 6,000 grams of seized narcotics“stressed Colonel Nelson Quiñónez, operational commander (e) of the Bogotá Police.

Likewise, the Mayor’s Office presented figures of establishments closed between Friday and Sunday in Bogotá within the framework of the surveillance and control days carried out in coordination with the police and the army to contain the crime: they were sealed 121 commercial establishments and 384 bottles of adulterated liquor were seized, as well as a total of eight clandestine parties were seized: “These controls that are carried out every weekend and that seek to reduce the number of homicides and other crimes, were strengthened this weekend, on the occasion of the celebration of Children’s Day”, said the Mayor’s Office through its official statement.

Despite the authorities’ recommendations to prevent minors from going out onto the streets, the records of 115 minors taken to the Family Police Station for wandering the streets are notorious. In the report he also noted that they were attended to and inhealthy 46 fights by the police. And the violence did not stop with the seizure of 485 knives, as well as 54 people were captured for different crimes, such as micro-trafficking, theft, assaults. The police reported 20 cases of merchandise recovery due to theft, with the addition that the inventory had three cars that will return to their owners, as well as a medium-cylinder motorcycle.

In addition, the Mayor’s Office presented a consolidated statement that began on Thursday, October 29 and concluded at dawn on November 1, in which the figures increase: 2,030 solicitations and 384 vehicles were immobilized on the city streets. This took into account phenomena associated with the popular festival, but unprecedented in the framework of the pandemic, such as motorcycle parades, marches on foot through different sectors of the capital (the popular “caravans”), Among others, that contradict the spirit of prevention that the capital city authority tried to promote for one of the last bridges of the year in Colombia.

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