Cuban police detained a man who had allegedly stolen a toolbox, after a chase through the municipality of Centro Habana, where the individual hid on the roof of a building.
The authorities reported that the traffic chief in that municipality, Major Alain Blach Aldana, was on a tour of Manrrique and Salud streets when he noticed that a group of neighbors was chasing a Cuban “who was moving agitated and running.”
People yelled “catch him,” after which the agent “chased the citizen on his motorcycle at a moderate speed and at the intersection of Campanario and Reyna streets captured him on top of a building” with the support of a police officer. PNR that resides in the property, published on Facebook the Municipal Assembly of People’s Power.
The thief had hidden on the roof of the building, the note detailed.
He explains that the man “had committed a robbery of a modern bucket toolbox in a Lada car.”
After being insured, he was transferred in car 860 to the Zanja Police Unit.
Amid growing criticism of the inefficiency of the police in the face of the increase in robberies in the country, the regime has created numerous profiles to publish events such as these in which the agents have been successful.
Despite citizens’ perception of growing impunity, the Ministry of the Interior (MININT) recently assured that stops most criminals in just 48 hours.
In statements collected by Prensa Latina, agency 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.
They also said that more than 90 percent of firearms crimes are solved, as well as 98 percent of those that result in the death of a person.
