The head of the Buenos Aires Government,
Jorge Macri
, questioned this Wednesday the insecurity in the province of Buenos Aires by pointing out that the vast majority of armed confrontations carried out by the City Police officers are on Buenos Aires soil,
when they go and return. to work
.
"Between January and February of this year, the City Police
had 42 armed confrontations, but 37 occurred in the province of Buenos Aires
, with officers coming and going from work. This is
42% more
confrontations than in the same period of the year. last year," said Macri.
Along the same lines, he warned that "if that is the measure of the increase in crime in the province of Buenos Aires,
it is tremendous
."
In statements to LN+, the Buenos Aires mayor specified that "the City Police has eleven fallen in the line of duty, but only one died in the City of Buenos Aires, and ten in the Province" and gave as an example the armed confrontation that occurred in the last time a Buenos Aires police agent had them in his house in La Matanza.
"What is the limit to which you have to expose yourself when someone already comes with a weapon?
They are killing us police officers on the way to and from work
because they make it known that they are police officers. When they know they are police officers, the criminals "They shoot faster. There is an issue of laws that we have to review," Macri questioned.
Jorge Macri at a graduation ceremony for new cadets and firefighters of the City Police
He also criticized his Buenos Aires counterpart Axel Kicillof by pointing out that "in the province of Buenos Aires
they do not want to discuss drug dealing
."
"For example, Los Monos, in Rosario, is drug dealing. The drug dealing that we see in the province of Buenos Aires affects us. In the City, in a hundred days we have built five bunkers, the last one in Constitución," he noted.