“We have complete control of the territory,” said the Minister of Security, Gustavo Villatoro, explaining that, thanks to the tools they have, they can identify crimes, gang groups and others.
Villatoro stated that this intelligence information, for example, allowed them to identify that in the 10 de Octubre neighborhood, in San Marcos, to the National Civil Police and the Armed Forces that the gang members were trying to regroup in the area and maintain the sales business. of retail drugs.
“There was information about the regrouping of the remnants of gangs, there is also behavior in recent months related to drugs. These ‘useful fools’ who try to follow orders from cowards who, even outside the territory, think that they are going to raise up the gangs again with this drug business,” the official said.
Villatoro added that: “thanks to the implementation of new technologies, day by day we are updating country information, after this analysis we see delegation by delegation which quadrant has an impact, and is part of the entire transformation of public security.”
Less than 24 hours after the siege in the 10 de Octubre neighborhood, around four arrests of gang remnants and one drug-related arrest have already been recorded. “That is to say, police information and citizen information is what we use to guide all of this work. “There is no set timeframe for how long the fence will last.”
The Minister of Security highlights that now the State has the capacity to confront the human phenomenon of the gangs that had power for many years. “El Salvador has been transformed and now has complete control of the national territory, the collaboration of the population has been essential. Every day we are capturing remnants of gangs,” the official said.