Governor Rogelio Frigerio, accompanied by Mayor Francisco Azcué, inaugurated a police detachment in the José Hernández neighborhood, which also includes a body and paint shop for the repair of official vehicles. Furthermore, he launched a Mobile Operational Unit equipped with state-of-the-art technology to strengthen crime prevention.
The property, strategically located at Las Heras street and Peatonal Aguilera, was transformed from a former "drug bunker" into a space for service and security for the community, in an area that has historically been hit by drug trafficking. The new detachment, which will report to the Eighth Police Station, will facilitate more direct contact with residents and expand coverage to other jurisdictions, with permanent police presence 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
The mechanical body and paint shop, managed by trained police personnel, will allow for significant resource savings by avoiding the hiring of private workshops, as well as the optimization of the maintenance of the police vehicle fleet.
Accompanied by the Chief of the Entre Ríos Police, Claudio González; Frigerio emphasized his administration's commitment to security. "From the first moment, when we took office in the provincial government, the scourge of drug trafficking, micro-trafficking, and crime in general has been and is one of our main challenges. We are doing everything we can to provide peace of mind to the residents of Concordia, and they feel it, notice it, and appreciate it, because there were many years of looking the other way in the face of the advance of drug traffickers."
The governor also highlighted the State's firmness against organized crime and support for the police force, noting that "today drug traffickers know that they have a provincial government, a municipal government, and the best police in Argentina, which is ours; determined to confront them, whatever the cost. In a time with many economic difficulties, we are slowly equipping the police as they deserve, and we will continue to do so in the years we have left in office."
JOINT WORK
For his part, Mayor Azcué recounted the history of the recovery of the site, when he served as a prosecutor, and remarked on the importance of inter-institutional collaboration to achieve it. He stressed that "in a joint effort between the Entre Ríos Police and the municipality, we have valued, recovered, and converted this space into a workshop and a detachment with permanent police presence. I want to thank the governor, because the truth is that the city and this neighborhood need it; it is a quite conflictive area."
He also valued the provincial government's stance against crime, assuring that "today we have a governor, a Minister of Security, and a Chief of Police who do what they have to do, act, and take a firm hand" in the fight against drug trafficking, and reiterated the municipality's willingness to work together.
On the occasion, a Mobile Operational Unit was also presented, a trailer repaired and equipped with a modern communications and monitoring system and a drone for operations. The device, which will report to the Trained Infantry Group (GIA), will expand preventive capacity, improve territorial control, speed up emergency response, and reinforce security at mass events.