Insecurity gives no respite in the Colombian capital, which is increasingly adding more and more reports of different forms of theft in which most localities have been affected.
In recent hours, there have been reports of the theft of sewers and SITP signals by some criminals, who use tools to be able to detach the objects so that they can take them away in their carts.
As can be seen in a video published by Canal El Tiempo, thieves operate late at night and at dawn, taking advantage of the fact that there are no passers-by and obviously no presence of the authorities.
There you can also see that once they extract what they need, they put it on their carts, they cover them well to avoid drawing attention to what they are carrying and then they leave quietly.
The residents of the Villas de Granada neighborhood, in the town of Engativá, northwest of Bogotá, said: “Last time two people came here to the neighborhood and took information notices and the tops of the sinkholes. This is a danger to the public”, according to statements collected by the aforementioned media outlet.
Given this, the perception of insecurity does not seem to have a significant improvement, since even the beginning of the year there has been an increase in thefts compared to the first month of 2021, with more than 30,000 complaints when the last figure barely exceeded 25,000, according to data from the authorities.
In an updated report in the first week of March, the Mayor's Office of Bogotá released some figures on how security is progressing in the city.
They emphasize that, for example, homicides have gone down:
Other crimes that were generally reduced were the theft of residences with a decrease of -38.54%, shoplifting with -36.28%, extortion with -28.04% and bicycle theft -25.83%. In addition to the theft of cell phones, one of the biggest complaints of citizens fell with -4.76%.
However, the data is not encouraging regarding the crimes of car theft, personal injury and theft of people.
Given this, the district authorities in charge of Mayor Claudia López outlined the measures they have been taking to solve the crimes that are committed every day.
The most affected communities hope that these measures can be reflected in the tranquility they can perceive as they walk the streets as they lead to their morning work.
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