CFK on crime: 'There is still a lot of room for improvement'

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner inaugurated a new Command and Control Centre for the Federal Police, where she asked for the Metropolitan Police to join forces in order to install security cameras throughout the city “without overlapping” in order to prevent crime.

“I want those little cameras everywhere. Not only in the south of the city. I also want them in the north neighbourhoods where the higher income families live. We need to avoid overlapping with the Metropolitan police and for the new cameras to cover areas that have not been covered yet,” she stated.

“Along with Uruguay and Chile, homicides resulted from criminal activities are the lowest when compared with New York, Los Angeles or San Francisco,” she said, although she assured that “there is still a lot of room for improvement.”

She was joined during the ceremony by Security Minister Nilda Garré and Federal Police chief Enrique Capdevilla.