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“All the letters that Hugo Acero has sent have been answered and we have always been willing to collaborate with them, I only reiterate something that the mayor knows and that is that her responsibility is for the union members who are in the police stations and in the URIs; We have gladly had more than 15 thousand convicts who are the responsibility of the Bogota City Hall and are in our penitentiary centers “, said.
Cabello Blanco responded to the letter that López sent him in the last few hours in which he asked for information on the application of the protocols that will be used for the transfer and custody of the 19 people deprived of liberty who are in the Kennedy URI, who were diagnosed with coronavirus.
In said document, the mayor stated that “The health emergency associated with COVID-19 calls us as public servants to honor the main commitment to avoid human loss.”
In that sense, he added that “The city has diagnosed as positive 19 people detained in the Kennedy URI room, seven uniformed officers from the police station in that same town and another six uniformed officers assigned to the Fontibón station.”
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In view of this situation, the District indicated that joint action is urgent and necessary to mitigate the contagion risks currently faced by “people who are in URI and police stations in the city of Bogotá, since overcrowding today stands at 292.5% and its greater degree of vulnerability due to pre-existing health conditions, allow us to prevent a spread of contagion in this population ”.
In the document, Claudia López warned that since last February and repeatedly “We have offered the National Government alternatives at the expense of the District for the generation of quotas for the unionized population, such as the construction of a new territorial detention facility in the La Picota properties, according to agreement 565 of 2018, receiving a negative response ”.
Meanwhile, data from the Personería de Bogotá indicate that the stations and URIs of the city have an “over-occupation of 145%. In Kennedy it is 140% and Fontibón 110%. The worst conditions are registered in San Cristóbal with 93% overcrowding and Los Mártires with 420% “.
On May 7, 1,148 people at city stations, despite the fact that its maximum shelter capacity is 472 retained. The situation has been worsening since before the quarantine began, that is, on March 18, there were 1,053 detainees.
