In accordance with the conclusions of the last Electoral Monitoring Committee, in Valledupar the security strategy is defined in order to protect the day and protect the constitutional guarantees of citizens, parties and political movements.
In this sense, the Public Force launched the ‘Democracy Plan’ to exercise surveillance and control before, during and after the elections. Likewise, a Unified Command Post (PMU) will be installed in the coming days that will be linked to the National Government and will promote the immediate reaction of the institutions to any irregularity that violates the process.
In this sense, Lieutenant Colonel Elber Benítez Camargo, commander of the Mobility, Countermobility and Survival Engineer Battalion No. 70, said that “The National Army, headed by the BIMOC Battalion No. 70 and La Popa, will have around 500 men. committed to the security of 17 voting stations in the rural area, where the deployment of troops is 95% to guarantee the right to vote.”
For its part, the National Police will deploy all its specialties throughout the municipality: Carabineros, SIPOL, Transit and Transportation, among others.
Regarding that, Lieutenant Colonel Alex Durán, deputy commander of the Cesar Police Department, emphasized: “We are going to have 700 men. We will not stop providing the Police service, we will reinforce the units, they will work in extraordinary shifts to have personnel committed to this electoral event. We will be available to answer the contact lines 7/24.