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Janet Tello Gilardi submitted her good offices to the Ministry of Women and Vulnerable Populations for its implementation.Thanks to the impulse of the president of the Judiciary, Janet Tello Gilardi, the Ministry of Women and Vulnerable Populations (Mimp) made official the creation of the Special Protection Unit (UPE) of the San Martin region, which will be competent for new cases of family lack of protection that begin this March 16.
It should be remembered that Tello Gilardi, at the time, expressed his interest in having the San Martin UPE come into operation as soon as possible after he made a working visit to the aforementioned judicial district, where he confirmed its immediate need.
Thus, in December 2025, she held a meeting with the then Minister of Women and Vulnerable Populations, Sandra Gutierrez Cuba, to whom she expressed the urgency of having the UPE.
We have our sights set on building a safe country and there are regions like San Martin that require a lot of support, so the implementation of this unit will result in the protection of boys and girls who do not enjoy that protection or are at risk, said Tello Gilardi after that appointment.
The judicial authority maintained that the work of the Judiciary and the Mimp has always been to build bridges and not allow inequalities, as well as to take actions to protect the vulnerable.
A UPE operates in an adequate infrastructure and has, among its functions, to evaluate the risk factors of minors, monitor compliance with provisional protection measures to guarantee the well-being of the minors, and provide them with immediate attention.
OUTSTANDING WORK
In this regard, the president of the Court of San Martin, Edward Sanchez Bravo, said that the work carried out by Tello Gilardi in this case has been outstanding and praiseworthy from the first moment when he visited the San Martin region and realized that it did not have a UPE.
He pointed out that it was difficult to achieve this unity, since he had meetings for almost a year with several ministers for its inauguration, which should have been in November of last year, but did not occur due to the changes that occurred in the Presidency of the Republic.
Sanchez Bravo said that with the aforementioned unit, minors at risk or unprotected will no longer pass through the hands of a family judge, but will go directly to the UPE, which will be in charge of processing their situation and taking them to the corresponding Residential Reception Center (CAR).
He added that when the UPE did not exist, unprotected girls and boys were sent to the family courts, who assumed the burden of this lack of protection and this meant postponing the other cases.
SUITABLE PLACES
The magistrate explained that until a CAR was found to house them, these minors had to be under the care of police and in environments that the court had enabled.
Now these minors will go to appropriate and safe places where they even have multidisciplinary teams. With this UPE, the role of the Judiciary will be to coordinate with the Public Ministry and the Ministry of Women so that they go to a place that meets their needs, he said.
The magistrate reported that the San Martin Court hears an average of ten cases of lack of family protection per month, which generated expenses for the maintenance of the girls and boys, as well as their transfers to the CARs, located outside its jurisdiction (Puno, Lima, Huanuco or other cities).
For the Court of San Martin we are able to somehow free the family courts from a certain burden and save the money required to transfer minors to the CARs, he added.
Finally, it reaffirmed its commitment to the protection of children and adolescents, with the guarantee of access to quick, safe justice and without re-victimization.
We work under the principle of the best interests of the child, with the use of specialized protocols to listen to their voice and ensure their well-being, concluded the judicial authority.
Lima, March 12, 2026
