The provincial government, through the Ministry of Justice and Security, initiated an "advanced workshop to counteract drug dealing and the retail commercialisation of synthetic drugs", together with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the Chilean Investigative Police.
At the opening, the Minister of Justice and Security, Pablo Cococcioni, pointed out that "the criminal policy of this administration has been reflected from the outset in a package of laws and legal instruments that included reforms to the Code of Criminal Procedure, the organisational law of the Public Prosecutor's Office, aspects of the Police and the Investigative Police, the defederalisation of the criminal prosecution of micro-trafficking and the reform of criminal enforcement, among many other instruments, which now need to be implemented. For this we are working fundamentally on the implementation of micro-trafficking, but we are also in the process of implementing a change between the Public Prosecutor's Office and the Investigation Police based on what will soon be the work by directives," he stressed.
"This is going to force us, from the executive agencies, to professionalise ourselves, to change our work dynamics to deepen the fight against both organised crime and against criminal manifestations that were once minimised or underestimated and are now being revealed as one of the main sources of crime in our urban environments, such as the sale of retail drugs in the neighbourhoods," continued the minister.
Finally, Cococcioni thanked the joint work between Santa Fe and the Chilean police, pointing out that "we have been able to set a very important agenda for international cooperation and we want to thank the team of trainers for being with us in this process of exchange and cooperation".
Among others, the Secretary of Public Security, Omar Pereyra; the Secretary of International Relations, Claudio Díaz; the Secretary of Analysis and Information Management, Esteban Santantino; the Undersecretary of Relations with the Judiciary, Florencia Blotta; the Consul General of Chile in Rosario, Rodrigo Mario Araya Mourgues, and the Project Coordinator of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime for the Andean Region and Southern Cone, Luis Ignacio García Sigman, were present.
