Pursuing criminals not only means searching for them after the theft of a cell phone through all the streets of the city, it is necessary to reach all the corners where they do business, where they carry the proceeds of their illicit activity and also those places where they meet to “ have fun”.
In Valledupar there are many establishments dedicated to the sale of liquor, a large part of Simón Bolívar Avenue has a variety of tobacco shops and bars, their owners faithfully comply with the hours set for their opening and closing, a measure created to avoid disorders and control situations that compromise our safety. When the time comes, the police very judiciously show up to verify that each of these establishments comply with the order to close at the corresponding time.
But a whole parallel activity has been formed to the formal liquor sales establishments. In several neighborhoods of the city there are so-called “dawns”; those who want to continue the party after the authorized hours come there. They have no limits and people can get drunk watching the sun rise over the Serranía del Perijá.
These dawns are a real threat, not because they fail to comply with the schedule set by the authorities, that is the least of the problems, the really serious thing is that these places attract the worst of society, leaders and members of gangs who, by not being able to sit In formal places of the vallenato trade, they take advantage of the secrecy offered by houses without advertising, without names, without exterior lights, they are only known by the bustle of the music that adorns an entire night of underworld gathering.
They can be found in the El Carmen neighborhood, on 19th street with Carrera 4G, also in the San Martín neighborhood, on 37th street with Carrera 18E, and in many more; The curious thing, to say the least, is that they ignore with impunity the hours established to serve clients, they can operate without receiving strict visits from the police unlike the establishments on Ninth or Simón Bolívar Avenue.
If proposed, in a lightning visit CTI, SIJIN and National Police could find several of the most wanted in this city, those who impose their law in the communes, in those dawns the hitman is contacted, the one who rents the weapon, who collects the extortion or go there to spend what they “earned” by committing their crimes.
An intense campaign is necessary to control the famous “sunrises”, verify the documents and if they do not comply, close them, register the people who enter, there will surely be several of those who generate panic in the city; It is precisely from one of those places that the 24-year-old María Camila Urango, who disappeared on April 15 of this year and was found dead on the 18th of the same month in the center of the city, came out.
The offensive against crime must not only include checkpoints, uniforms on the streets, offering rewards and calling on citizens to report; It is essential to attack all that paracommerce that revolves around bandits, those places where they meet and receive their clients and also their victims.
Carlos Andrés Anez Maestre
