Metropolitan Police are often 'put down and insulted', Eugenio Burzaco

Chief of Metropolitan Police Eugenio Burzaco mentioned that “every now and then people wish to insult and put down the work of the Met Police”, and continued that, “the service is for Buenos Aires residents, and does not belong to Mauricio Macri”.

“What they are looking for is a way to deteriorate the institution” mentioned Burazco referring to Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman, who had suggested that Met police participated in El Salvador in a US-financed training programme.

Burzaco added that with those types of courses a “wager toward the capabilities of staff” is created in order to “have them well-trained and earning a respectable wage”.

He also said “for them to keep preparing themselves, so they work efficiently and have more ways to defend the public”.

With regard to the Met Police’s relationship with City Mayor Mauricio Macro, and Security Minister Burzaco went on to say, “at one point we had a good relationship with them, but it was suspended with the events which occurred at the close of last year”.

The Chief of the Met police then related that, “we hope to be able gain more communication and a positive way of constructing a good relationship with them, if not, as it is now – crime will still have to depend on the Federal Police for a lot of the time”: