Of the 342 arrests of persons reported by the Barranquilla Metropolitan Police until this week, including 33 at the request of the court and 25 in flagrante delicto in extortion cases, most of them were persons with Inpec bracelets or, worse, treated with numerous legal proceedings. notes and with house arrest measures that are apparently not being complied with.
Days ago, the representative of Barranquilla, Miguel Ángel Alzate, put his finger on the sore spot when he thought about the number of officials of the National Penitentiary and Prison Institute, Inpec, assigned to the two prison centers managed by this entity in Barranquilla, the Modelo prison and the El Bosque prison, which is dedicated to assessing people deprived of their liberty and ordered to prison by local judges. For Alzate, this situation could be one of the reasons that crime is increasing in the district and in the metropolitan area.
“There is a more complex problem and that is that more than 7,000 people have been deprived of their liberty at home and only between 10 and 15 officials are keeping an eye on them. These officials are also responsible for administrative procedures, which raises doubts about the scope for supervision,” Alzate said in an interview with EL HERALDO.
However, the difficulty could go even further, not only in relation to the number of guardians or officials, but also to the tasks assigned, the way they are mobilized and the number of visits they have to make seven days a week, including public holidays .
Sources within Inpec itself indicated that in reality there are not fifteen but nine officials assigned to supervisory duties who have been deprived of their liberty under house arrest, four who are in Modelo prison and five who are in El Bosque prison.
“There is a motorcycle in the Modelo prison with two officials who assess it and also inform the prisoners of house arrest. When hearings take place, when they (detainees) have to appear for a court request, they (guardians) must go to the home and inform them. In addition, they (guardians) clean up the (prisoners’) houses every day. Those who leave home will be taken to their place of residence. There is a third party who is the coordinator, who carries out all administrative procedures. And there is someone else who is responsible for what the armbands are, their installation and the inspection of the equipment,” the source explained regarding the functions of the uniformed personnel.
A similar case occurs in the prison of El Bosque, but with the difference that in this prison, with more capacity than the Modelo, there are five officials for such purposes and a single motorcycle for all the actions to be carried out.
The source makes it clear that every detention center must monitor its prisoners under house arrest.
“Every establishment has its residents. The model has her prisoners under house arrest and with bracelets. El Bosque (prison) has a separate, completely independent residence and their (prisoners) have independent bracelets,” he explained.
Source: El heraldo

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