2024-09-15 10:58:36
After the mourning that left the deaths of the high-ranking police officers in an air tragedy, on September 8, when the country had recorded 698 days without bloodshed; but the country lost the person in charge of this sustained reduction in criminal acts, the General Commissioner of the National Civil Police, Director Mauricio Arriaza Chicas and other high-ranking officers of the PNC, would perish in an air accident in Pasaquina, La Unión Norte.
After the end of the executive decree of “National Mourning”, issued by the President of the Republic, Nayib Bukele, and according to statistics from the National Civil Police (PNC), Thursday, September 12 closed without the registration of any homicide throughout the national territory. Wednesday, September 12 closed without the registration of any homicide throughout the national territory. Adding one more day to the general accumulation of days without violent events, which counts 700 days without mourning events.
That is, September with nine days, added to the 18 days with zero homicides in August, with which the cumulative number of days without violent deaths this year is 180. This figure is detailed as follows:
24 days were reached in January; another 24 in February, while March closed with 21 days with zero homicides; April totaled 19 days without violent crimes; May ended with 21; June, the safest month in the history of El Salvador, closed with 24 and by the end of the 31st, July had accumulated 23.
During the first five years and the few days of his second term, President Nayib Bukele has achieved a cumulative record of 700 days without murders, of which 580 have been achieved in the framework of the war against gangs that the Government implemented against these criminal groups since March 27, 2022.
Since that date, the Exception Regime has been extended 28 times.
Also, it is estimated that 81,900 people profiled as gang members have been captured in more than two years of implementation of the Territorial Control Plan and the tools that the exceptional regime provides to the authorities, this according to what was revealed by the Minister of Security, Gustavo Villatoro.
Villatoro said that in the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), built to house gang members, there are already more than 14,000 individuals in prison; in a facility with the capacity to house 40,000 inmates.
Another figure worth highlighting is the homicide rate, which is currently 2.1 per 100,000 inhabitants, while the effectiveness of arrests is 95%. Sexual assaults have also been on the decline, according to the official, with a 60% drop in the commission of this crime.
Minister Gustavo Villatoro confirmed that there are an estimated 10,000 gang members who still need to be captured; and insisted that the Salvadoran state is now in control of the territory.