Ten days after the murder of Daniel Barrientos and while the cases of violence on public transport are repeated,
the bus drivers still lack new instruments
to improve safety
in the units that travel through the suburbs.
Drivers and passengers travel the same as before the death of the bus driver on line 620 from La Matanza.
The commitments assumed by Axel Kicillof in front of the drivers union are for now on hold.
The
1,200 security cameras
installed in the GBA buses still do not transmit to the monitoring center because they do not have the chips that capture Internet data.
These devices are
imported
and the authorities try to expedite bureaucratic procedures so that they reach the country.
The procedure could take "two or three weeks" as recognized by the provincial government.
For this reason, they will request the intervention of Enacom (National Communications Entity).
The
1,800 anti-panic buttons
to request assistance in eventual critical situations that drivers working night shifts had to operate were not distributed.
The promise that the officials made to the union of the UTA in the meeting last Monday remains stagnant because the government needs a list that the chambers of transport businessmen must prepare.
The crime of the bus driver Daniel Barrientos occurred in Virrey del Pino, La Matanza.
Photo Luciano Thieberger
The monitoring center that will receive the images emitted by the cars currently has dozens of empty screens.
It is that the pole that concentrates the capture of videos is in “Puente 12”, in La Matanza.
The platform can monitor some
20,000 vehicles
with cameras, panic buttons and intercom with the cab.
It would be enough to support all the passenger transport that circulates through the province of Buenos Aires.
According to the technical data provided by the Ministry of Security, this center also offers two image evaluation sites located in La Plata and Mar del Plata.
All directly integrated with the province's 911 platform.
Everything prepared, but the devices are missing.
Even when the province admitted that it gave transport businessmen
2,500 million pesos
to buy cameras and equipment.
They were granted by the government as of resolution 509/2021 of the Ministry of Infrastructure to comply with Law 14,897.
This norm, sanctioned in 2017, requires the installation of these surveillance systems throughout the province.
Daniel Barrientos, the bus driver murdered in a robbery in Virrey del Pino
In the midst of these deficiencies in the transfer of funds granted by the Province, last Monday Daniel Barrientos was shot to death in Virrey del Pino.
The tragedy led to a protest by bus drivers in which they attacked Minister Berni, who tried to call a dialogue in the middle of General Paz avenue.
Kicillof searched for an alternative answer.
He basted - with little evidence - the possibility that it was an episode "armed" by sectors of the opposition.
He questioned the characteristics of the assault on the bus.
He said that the behavior of criminals was "strange" and "unprecedented".
He mentioned an operation that looked like a commando coup against an armored car with an alleged car that would have crossed Barrientos' path.
The version collapsed due to the testimonies of at least two passengers (one of them a City police officer) and camera footage from the area.
Politics did enter like a battering ram after the tragic episode of violence.
Deputy Martín Rodríguez Yelpo (former Cambiemos, now from the Espacio Abierto bloc) intervened in the drafting of the law that sought the protection of interurban travel.
“The norm established a reasonable term for the readaptation of the units, in charge of the companies, and control measures such as VTV and the non-qualification of new groups without the respective cameras.
Unfortunately, due to
the negligence of the business sector as well as the provincial State
in its role as comptroller, of almost 9,000 cars, only 1,500 had the system installed, and poorly.
That is why we continue to regret events like the one that happened with the murdered driver,” said the deputy.
On Tuesday night, there were two other violent actions: a driver and a passenger were injured.
It happened in Moreno and on Tres de Febrero.
Legislator Walter Lanaro (JxC), president of the Senate Security Committee, asked that Berni and the Minister of Transportation, Jorge D'0nofrio, present themselves to give explanations to the venue.
Lanaro wanted to know "if the government made crime maps that allow the identification of the most insecure areas of the Province and specifically of the Conurbano, how criminal information is carried out and how this mapping is divided."
Minister D'Onofrio considered this Wednesday that “the Province made an effort and we already have a significant number of cameras installed.
Obviously not the one we all want.
In the meetings we did not establish responsibilities, but we worked on how we show society that we are going to have these elements available”.
He also assured that
businessmen must comply with the purchase of equipment
.
And that the State "is not going to pay twice for the same thing."
The Silver. correspondent
MG
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