Police Ramp Up Patrols After Daylight Murder Near Checkpoint

Apart from this round up, the police will be taking additional measures to prevent further bloodshed. Among the measures will be an increase in foot patrols and heightened surveillance of suspicious motorcyclists. These moves, however, may not necessarily add to the confidence of citizen security.  Since Saturday, additional boots had been on the ground, yet it did not deter today’s broad daylight shooting.  To compound the matter, today’s homicide occurred within a shouting distance of a police checkpoint. This evening, Commissioner Rosado touched on the police’s plan and responded to whether the department suffered a breakdown in its strategy this morning. 

Dr.Richard Rosado, Commissioner of Police: “We have increased police presence in all the areas that are affected. We have embedded our intelligence officers in all the affected areas to gather the necessary evidence. We have also assigned or increased the investigative team in order to identify, in order to disrupt this network and bring them to justice. We have intensified the targeted operations looking for firearms and disrupting the gang activity. Criminals will take every opportunity they get to strike at their rivals and what happened this morning is just an opportunity that presented themselves and they decided to strike on that.”

Reporter: And interns of that network, are you able to say now if the rivalry has spilled over to other gangs because I know on Saturday it was somewhat between the BLC and PIV but is there any information if any other gangs are now involved ?

Dr.Richard Rosado, Commissioner of Police: “Presently from our assessment that we have made it’s only the PIV and the BLC and the affiliates that are presently going after one another and it is such a critical stage right now that drastic measures must be taken.”

Rosado added that other measures, which were not disclosed to the media, will also be implemented.