Police talk to barrio leaders

[NewsWhore]

Police chief Bernardo Santana Paez met with barrio leaders in Santiago yesterday to discuss the reports that self-defense brigades were being formed to combat crime. He met with representatives from San Jose La Mina, Hato Mayor and Barrio Lindo. Santana told the community leaders that he would be meeting with the president of the Fighting Barrio Committee, Jose Francisco Consuegra, as well as other brigade leaders. The chief told the barrio leaders that "citizens should trust the police and their work." As reported in Diario Libre, Santana Paez urged the leaders to cooperate and to report anything that caught their attention to the police. For their part, the community leaders complained that the absence of police patrols in the barrios was causing the current new wave of robberies. The police chief said that he would look into this and evaluate the work of the local police commanders.

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