The cuban police returned a number of goods stolen in recent months to their owners in Hundred firesaccording to the official local press.
Since the last week, agents of the Cuban Ministry of the Interior (MININT), in public acts, have delivered in several municipalities of this province goods stolen from both natural persons and state institutions, according to the local official newspaper September 5.
Among the returned belongings are the technological equipment stolen from a young couple in Rhodes, a bicycle belonging to a doctor from the provincial pediatric hospital, car batteries and a cell phone, the aforementioned media reported.
The local police also returned car batteries and components of air conditioning equipment, stolen from the University of Cienfuegos, as well as boxes of beer, stolen from a Commerce warehouse; clothing and a minibar, belonging to a citizen; as well as lamps and light bulbs from houses, lists the note, in which the police action is praised, increasingly questioned by the population in the face of the escalation of insecurity that exists on the island.
Since the last year, it is observed an increasing trend in crime throughout the countryviolent acts with weapons, robberies inside homes, serious injuries and even deaths, many of them denounced in networks due to the ineffectiveness of the police to stop this wave of violence in Cuba.
In response to criticism, the island’s authorities are also increasingly publicizing the delivery of stolen goods or the capture of suspected criminals.
In recent months, dissimilar profiles linked to the MININT have even proliferated on social networks in which the police response to the increase in crime on the island is publicized.
In late June, Cuban police in Guantanamo organized a political rally to return to a woman items stolen from her home, including an induction cooker and other kitchen utensils.
Last April, moreover, it became known of the political act carried out by the Cuban police to deliver stolen phones in Holguinas part of the campaign to reinforce its image in the face of repeated criticism of the passivity of the authorities in the face of the increase in robberies in the country.
“The Revolutionary Police in the Urbano Noris municipality (Holguín) returns to their legitimate owners the cell phones that were stolen as a result of a crime of robbery with violence. With the presence of the First Secretary of the PCC of the municipality, the grateful people were present ”, he wrote this Wednesday in his profile of Facebook Michel Fundorah, who introduces himself as a Public Relations specialist.
Based on the shared images, the act took place in the middle of a park in that Holguin city, with the presence of local authorities and residents of that municipality.
Recently, given the escalation of insecurity on the island and criticism of the authorities, the MININT assured the official press that its agents apprehends most criminals in just 48 hours.
In statements collected by Latin PressAgency officials affirmed that there is no impunity for crimes, and denied the veracity of alleged acts disseminated on the networks, such as armed assaults on buses and hospitals, as well as assaults and kidnapping of minors.
Colonel Hugo Morales, chief of the National Revolutionary Police (PNR) patrol brigade, also argued on that occasion that there are people who unscrupulously publish unverified information and generate panic, which he linked to a supposed “war media” that is promoted against Cuba from abroad.
For his part, Colonel Manuel Valdés, head of the confrontation body of the Technical Directorate of Investigations (DTI), said that all crimes that are reported are investigated, and that most of those responsible are arrested within 48 hours.
