Bogotá bans barbecue on motorbikes in homes after recent insecurity events

Faced with the insecurity events that have affected the citizens of Bogota over the past two days, which have left six dead, the concerns of the citizens of the capital have increased considerably, as have their demands for results from the authorities. This morning, from the District, an extraordinary security council was convened and certain decisions were taken to guarantee the safety of the citizens.

According to the mayor Claudia Lopez, These are additional measures with which they intend to improve the security of the citizens of Bogota “which has been altered, especially this week, with very painful events”.

In the first measure, López stressed that the police, in collaboration with the national army, They will create 30 new patrol posts, which will be used to disarm the city. “They will patrol, control and seek to improve the issue of disarmament, to identify armed people, whether with a knife or a gun, who are committing crimes in the city.”

On the other hand, the Bogotá’s mayor’s office urged the national government to regulate the import, sale and use of traumatic weapons. “We have detected during investigations with the police and the prosecutor’s office that more and more traumatic weapons are being used for theft. They are used and a national decree is sufficient to reduce their sale and use ”.

The third district measure consists of prohibit barbecue on home motorcycles. According to the mayor of Bogotá, this decision corresponds to unfortunate evidence that criminals camouflage themselves in the work of the inhabitants of the city to commit their crimes.

López recalled that one of the cases this week, in which this situation was brought to light, corresponded to the shootout on Wednesday at Calle 79 with Carrera VII, in which the officer Edwin Arnoldo Caro died, after having needed two men, supposedly domiciled, who drove a motorbike.

“To protect the majority of decent people who devote themselves to this work and the citizens, We will impose by decree of the mayor’s office of Bogotá certain controls and regulations that any company, company or platform that provided the platform service must comply with», López stressed.

The mayor stressed that for this measure to have an impact on the safety of the city, companies that have a home service must do their part. For this reason, he pointed out that these companies, businesses or digital platforms “are jointly responsible for what their house does”, just as they cannot hire undocumented migrants. He pointed out that if a home is captured, the vehicle is detained and the home and its employer are punished.

In addition, the mayor noted that Households must carry, both in their clothes and in their vehicle, items that easily identify them with the company for which they work. In addition, these companies must have private spaces where their homes should be located, in order to avoid invasion of public space.

“Households do not need a grill (…) It is not necessary that there be a grill on a motorbike at home. So a motorbike grill at home which is absolutely forbidden in the whole city ”.

On the other hand, the president indicated that they will increase the personnel dedicated to the investigation to dismantle the criminal gangs of Sijín and the prosecutor’s office, in order to improve the results of the identification and capture of the doomed gangs. drug theft and trafficking.

Finally, the mayor of Bogotá recalled that in the capital, Plan 100 against micro-trafficking is being drawn up, in collaboration with the national police. According to the commander of the Metropolitan Police of Bogotá, General Óscar Gómez Heredia, since the launch of this initiative, 17 properties have been seized with extinction of property.

In addition, the mayor underlined, once again, the importance of citizen participation in security fronts or citizen care networks. “We citizens know that we beat crime together,” said the district president.

The decree with the measures explained by the mayor will be available from tomorrow and, for five days, after these, the measures will officially take effect. and they will be maintained, according to López, as long as necessary.

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