As part of the Blindaje Tulum strategy, 14 cameras allegedly operated by organized crime and used to “hawk” (monitor) along 42 kilometers of the Tulum-Cobá highway were dismantled, reported Captain José Roberto Rodríguez Bautista, head of the Municipal Secretariat for Security and Citizen Protection.
The police chief specified that these cameras, which were uninstalled in the week that just ended, were made available to the State Attorney General’s Office for the corresponding investigations. First, a tour was carried out by the Municipal Police, State Police and the Navy to locate them.
He said that it was a meticulous operation along the entire highway that goes from the municipal capital of Tulum to Cobá to detect them. First, they were investigating whether they belonged to a business or person who had them installed out of personal interest and upon receiving no response the next day, they uninstalled them.
He said that these video cameras do not belong to any particular security body, neither to the police, nor to the secretariat, nor to the C2 or C5, so it is presumed that some criminal group has placed them in order to keep that road, which connects with the state of Yucatan, under surveillance.
Rodríguez Bautista commented that these actions correspond to a whole strategy called Blindaje Tulum, which covers all areas, not only the municipal but also the state and federal, in a coordinated manner. He added that in recent weeks the State Attorney General’s Office has made a series of arrests and prosecutions of generators of violence in this region of Quintana Roo.
“The message is very clear, there is no impunity, any crime that is committed will be pursued and punished. They are part of the agreements made at the State Security Board that in all municipalities patrols would be carried out by preventive authorities to detect, uninstall or dismantle private cameras that are placed in public roads for the crime of usurpation of functions,” he concluded.
Source: lajornadamaya
