The governor of the province of Santa Fe,
Maximiliano Pullaro,
thanked Axel Kicillof for the help sent to him from Buenos Aires, which
includes 80 patrol cars
, to combat drug crime in Rosario.
"It is the first time that a province collaborates with material resources with another province," said the Santa Fe president.
Furthermore, he said that he will never "make agreements with criminal organizations" and announced that he will triple the presence of security forces in the city.
Pullaro stressed that many borrowers are not in a position to sell Santa Fe the number of patrol cars.
For this reason, he added, he contacted the Province of Buenos Aires, which sent him 80 "practically new" trucks, used in the summer Operation Sol on the Atlantic Coast.
Kicillof, like the other 22 governors, came out on Tuesday to support Pullaro with a joint statement.
"A federal problem that concerns us all," said the former Minister of Economy about drug trafficking.
This Friday, the governor of Santa Fe also highlighted the help provided by the Nation through the Minister of Security, Patricia Bullrich, who added the support of federal forces.
Maxi Pullaro received 80 patrol cars from the Buenos Aires Police to combat drug crime in Rosario
"For many years, we said that drug trafficking is a problem that we have in the province of Santa Fe, it hurts our soul, we see how lives are lost and, in the case of last week, the lives of innocents, workers, only for having retaliation through a narco-terrorist act to break the decision of two constitutional governments, that of Santa Fe and that of the Nation," said Pullaro in the White Room of the Rosario Government headquarters.
"The path we are going to follow is the path of never agreeing with criminal organizations and simply enforcing the law outside the prison and within the penitentiary establishments of the province of Santa Fe. We
are going to go to the last consequences so that "those materially and intellectually responsible are detained
and end their days in this world behind bars for the damage they caused to society," he added at the conference, in which Javier Alonso, Buenos Aires Minister of Security, was present.
Santa Fe has around 3,000 troops in the regional unit and more than 1,000 in special units, plus the forces that are carrying out investigative work in the city of Rosario, which belong to the Investigative Police, indicated the provincial leader.
In addition, he estimated that 450 more troops were added to the city of Rosario and retired personnel were incorporated into a fixed guard system.
Maxi Pullaro received 80 patrol cars from the Buenos Aires Police to combat drug crime in Rosario
"Federal forces are reinforcing different neighborhoods due to their complexity. We are going to triple the police presence on the streets in the coming months in the city of Rosario," added Pullaro.
The sending of support had been announced on Wednesday by Buenos Aires Minister Alonso and includes some 400 troops from the Immediate Operations Tactical Unit (UTOI).
In addition, 80 patrol vessels, three helicopters and drones were sent.
At the time the sending of units was announced, the aim was, according to Axel Kicillof's Minister of Security, to prevent the arrival of drug violence in the province of Buenos Aires.