17/05/2011. Theft from the account holder and from a house, as well as rapes, are the crimes that increased during March and April of this year in Mexico City, according to the Crime Index Report (RINDE) delivered by the capital authorities to the Citizen Council of Public Security and Attorney General of the Federal District.
This is the second comparative report with the same period of the previous year, of six, that this body must receive and present to the citizens on the behavior of 14 high-impact crimes and the impact they represent on citizen security.
With this instrument, citizens will have a tool, a kind of traffic light, that will help them to know real figures of the illicit acts with the greatest impact. "So that every citizen is not exposed to being bombarded with information that may confuse him; that you press the button and that you know what is happening, that it does not happen that on Wednesday it is published that everything is going very well, on Thursday the thing is going very badly and on Friday the thing goes more or less, "said Luis Wertman Zaslav, president of the Citizen Council.
According to representatives of the Attorney General's Office of the Federal District (PGJDF) and the local Ministry of Public Security, in the period from March to April 2011 there were 271 complaints for the crime of robbery of account holder, which represents an increase of 8.8% compared to 2010, when 249 preliminary investigations were initiated.
As for the theft of a house, in the same period of 2010 there were 120 complaints and in 2011, 143, that is, an increase of 19.2%. In the case of rapes, from 194 they went to 228, an increase of 17.5%.
The Deputy Prosecutor for Central Preliminary Investigations of the PGJDF, Jesús Rodríguez Almeida, clarified, regarding the violations, that most of them have been intramural, which means that the attacks very rarely occur on public roads.
As for the robberies of account holders, he said that some gangs have already been arrested, but he affirmed that so far there is no evidence that any bank employee has participated in complicity with the criminals.
Wertman presented the report at the San Rafael campus of the Universidad del Valle México, which also describes in these two months a decrease in other crimes that were previously more frequent, such as kidnapping, which decreased 50%; taxi theft, 41.4%; vehicle theft, 28.5%; theft from carrier, 23%; intentional injuries from gunshots, 16%, and theft from business, 14%.
Likewise, other illicit acts, such as robbery of a delivery person, decreased 11.6%; passerby, 5.8%; to microbus passengers, 4.6%, and on board the Metro, 3.9%.
In his speech, the Undersecretary of Information and Police Intelligence of the SSPDF, Gonzalo Martínez Ulloa, asked citizens to actively participate in their security, especially in cases of theft from the account holder and house room.
Wertman said the report will be available to the public on the citizens' council's website (www.consejociudadanodf.org.mx).
Source: eluniversal.com.mx
