They are seeking to speed up bills against insecurity in Costa Rica

On Monday, the President of the Legislative Assembly, Rodrigo Arias, confirmed that the country is going through an emergency of insecurity, and he intends to find a solution to this problem.

And he announced that next week he would hold a meeting with senior officials of the Supreme Court of Justice, the Third Chamber, the Judicial Investigation Agency, Public Security, the Public Prosecution Office, and the Directorate of Intelligence and Security, and he hopes that each of these will be. Take on the projects that you consider a priority.

“Among all of us we will seek consensus on these five priorities, and once that is determined, my obligation is to pass them on to Fraction headquarters so that we can, in no more than a month’s time, approve these projects,” Arias said.

This is the first approach of the practical exercise to identify initiatives, and once the most important projects have been identified, Arias considered that the next step would be to meet with President Rodrigo Chavez to implement stronger measures in terms of security in the country.

In this regard, the Speaker of the Legislative Council indicated that Chaves was informed of their meeting next week.

Specifically, in a message addressed to the population on the issue of security, the Costa Rican President revealed last night that he asked last Friday Arias and the President of the Supreme Court of Justice, Orlando Aguirre, “We will have a cup of coffee next Thursday. , to discern the path necessary to give you back the security you demand and deserve.” .

Likewise, he called on Arias and Aguirre to “accompany him in mid-April to present urgent legal reforms together and to introduce them as a team, without commending anyone on urgent issues: carrying arms, extradition, precautionary measures, pre-trial detention and prison benefits.”

He also continued to talk about wiretapping, juvenile criminal law, and minimum standards of punishment for certain crimes.

The President took the opportunity to tell the deputies that “at the end of the day it will be their decision according to the political constitution and the rule of law that we all love whether or not they will pass these laws. And how quickly they will do so.”

Chavez indicated that he praised today’s meeting in the Bar Association to discuss the issue of security in the country.

Costa Rica is experiencing a wave of violence, having recorded more than 160 murders so far in 2023, and projections indicate that by the end of December there will be more than 900 such events, most of them related to drug trafficking.

In 2022, according to data from the Judicial Investigation Agency, Costa Rica recorded 654 homicides and a rate of 12.6 per 100,000 inhabitants, both historically highs.

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