TUXTLA GUTIERREZ, Chis. (apro).- General Luis Crescencio Sandoval González, head of the National Defense Secretariat (Sedena), said today that Chiapas is one of the states where the official figures and statistics reveal that the crime rate is declining.
In the morning press conference held this Friday the 23rd from the General Headquarters of the VII Military Region of Sedena, Sandoval gave a state report on public security.
Prior to his speech, the federal president said that in Chiapas, “there is a lot of respect among the people, customs and traditions have not been lost; The social fabric has not been broken, there is community life, there is a lot of culture, and this keeps Chiapas as a calm, peaceful and very beautiful state, in addition to all its history, all its culture”.
In this entity with 5.5 million Chiapas residents in the 124 municipalities of the state, he said that the criminal incidence in the state, according to reports from the Executive Secretariat and the National Public Security System, “all are down and are from 22 place towards 32”.
He explained that transportation theft is in 22nd place, kidnapping is in 25th place and also human trafficking, extortion and intentional homicides in 26th place, vehicle theft in 30th place, house robbery in 32nd place and high-profile crimes. impact, that is to say, added these crimes that the registry is kept has the place 31 and, as I mentioned, all, all towards the fall.
“Here you can see the inter-institutional work, the coordinated work of the state governor, the federal forces, the state forces, the operation of the Security Table where aspects of this area are addressed and where strategies are determined so that serve the state. Here you can see the flights and we are going to touch on each of the crimes,” said the military command.
The military chief pointed out the robbery in transport, in May there was only one case. That in May there were no kidnappings. Much less the crime of human trafficking was documented in this same month.
Regarding intentional homicides, he said that in the month of May there were 36 homicides, which places Chiapas in 26th place nationwide. Extortion, three crimes were presented in May, which places Chiapas in 26th place nationwide, also with a downward trend.
Regarding vehicle theft, there were 30 crimes, which places Chiapas in 30th place nationwide. There are 182 vehicle thefts so far in 2023. About burglaries, 22 crimes were registered in May, 32nd place nationwide, “its trend is downward.”
Of the crimes of impact, there are records of 391 crimes in the month of May. What puts Chiapas in 31 place at the national level, “we see the downward trend here.”
As for the number of intentional homicides by federal entity so far in the administration and until May, the state ranks 21st nationwide with 1,969 homicides, the national average being 3,936, the command explained. military.
And he added that in terms of intentional homicides, Chiapas ranks 26th, since it is the state that has had 36 homicides so far, when the average is 109.
He added that intentional homicides, vehicle theft and drug dealing occur in four municipalities, these four municipalities concentrate 43 percent of this type of crime, these municipalities also coincide, which is Tuxtla Gutiérrez and Tapachula with the municipalities that They have a larger population.
As for public security personnel, I explained that Chiapas has 3,591 troops and the municipal police have 5,192, for a total of 8,783 operational elements.
“According to the averages managed by the UN, it has a deficit of 36 percent, but we have already observed in the behavior of crimes: despite having this deficit, the coordination that all the authorities have leads to having the crimes in a very low percentage,” he said.
The municipalities with the greatest police presence are Tuxtla, Tapachula, San Cristóbal, Palenque and Ocosingo, which is where the public security forces are present.
Regarding federal security forces, the Army and the Air Force have 8,283 operational elements, the Secretary of the Navy has 1,823, the National Guard has 4,932 operational elements that are working in the state, which adds up to a total of the federal forces of 15 thousand 38 elements.
These 15 thousand 38 elements added to the state and municipal ones make a total of 23 thousand 821 operational elements that, according to the General, “work daily in the field of security, generating favorable conditions for the population.”
And, regarding the deployment of the National Guard coordinations, the state has 11 regional coordinations and one state coordination. The regional coordinations are in Palenque, Ocosingo, Las Margaritas, Comitán de Domínguez, Tapachula, San Cristóbal de las Casas, Tonalá, Villaflores, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Pichucalco and Bochil. And that is where all the Guard deployed, the companies of the Guard, are located.
He recalled that in 2020 the creation of 10 companies was considered, of which all of these are already 100 percent completed and the personnel deployed are therefore in San Cristóbal de las Casas, in Palenque, Chilón, Las Margaritas, Frontera Comalapa, Tapachula, Huehuetán, Tonalá, Villaflores and Bochil.
Three more were created in the 2022 program: Palenque, Arriaga and Cintalapa, which are under construction. Two more will be built in 2023: in Jitotol and Acacoyagua. “They are in the process of being built,” the general said.
He mentioned that SEDENA ceded to the National Guard three Army facilities in San Cristóbal, Ocosingo and San Juan Copalar in order to complement the entire deployment, so that by the end of the year the 18 National Guard facilities are already available. for your operation.
Regarding the allocation of federal and state resources in matters of public security, he explained that Chiapas receives 313.3 million pesos from the Contribution Fund for Public Security and in what is for the Strengthening of Municipalities and Territorial Demarcations, Chiapas has four thousand 975.3 million pesos.
Regarding seizures, he said that 28 boats, four semi-submersibles, 31 aircraft, 512 firearms, more than 47,000 cartridges, 29,505 kilograms of cocaine, three unused landing strips, 1,470 detainees, 1,370 vehicles seized from crime, 8.3 million pesos insured to criminal groups and 562 thousand 159 dollars.
