Panama City. In the last 72 hours, 502 people were arrested as part of Operation Panama 3.0 launched by President José Raúl Mulino to confront the gangs, the National Police reported.
Among those arrested are individuals linked to drug trafficking and firearms, ammunition, cars, almost 20 thousand dollars and various caches of drugs, mainly cocaine, were recovered, according to the report.
When establishing this plan, Mulino indicated that 1,032 new agents were deployed and community patrols, mobile checkpoints and checkpoints began in conflict areas such as the province of Colón (Caribbean), one of the most dangerous; Panamá Oeste (adjacent to the capital), the district of San Miguelito (peripheral neighborhood with high insecurity rates), the Canal area and other popular areas near the metropolitan city.
The strategy includes a house-by-house or farm-by-farm review of the main dangerous areas, the governor noted.
“All of this has a single purpose: that every Panamanian worker feels that peace and security are returning. The challenge is great, there were many years of lack of leadership giving free rein to organized crime throughout the country,” he indicated.
According to official statistics, 19 percent of the 556 homicides in the country in 2023 occurred in Colón and 18 percent in San Miguelito, which were thus positioned as the second and third most violent areas of the isthmus, only surpassed by Panama, which recorded 38 percent.
Mulino mentioned that his commitment is to the good citizen and in that sense he also announced the creation of new surveillance groups among neighbors, businessmen and schools to provide greater security.
In his usual weekly conversation with the press, the head of state announced that the curfew for minors since last August from 9:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. local time as a rule, in Colón and San Miguelito, the entire population would be expanded, a measure that must be in consensus with the authorities of those territories.
Authorities from the Ministry of Security point out that 70 percent of the murders in the country are linked to organized crime, including gangs, which are responsible for hiding the drugs that arrive from South America and moving them so that they leave for the United States, the largest consumer, and Europe
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