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Current management of Sucamec implements recommendations of the Comptroller's Office to optimize inspection procedures for private security companies canceled between 2021 and 2022.
The current management of the National Superintendence of Control of Security Services, Weapons, Ammunition and Explosives for Civil Use (Sucamec), has been implementing the recommendations of the Comptroller General of the Republic (CGRP), within the established deadlines, after the audit body warned that the location of 70 firearms for civilian use of seven private security companies, whose operating authorizations were canceled between 2021 and 2022, is unknown.
Sucamec reported that, indeed, there would be responsibilities of former officials of the Institution who had incurred in omissions; for which they will have to answer in the framework of an administrative disciplinary process; This investigation will determine whether there were violations, in order to be able to apply sanctions to those responsible; and inform the Public Prosecutor's Office if necessary, so that it can take the corresponding actions.
"The audited period corresponds to January 02, 2021 to December 30, 2022. We are a new administration that began its work 12 days before the end of 2022, that is, we have inherited this problem, "said the manager of Arms of the Sucamec, Crnel PNP (e) Ronald Rejas Albújar.
He also reported that after the operating authorization of these companies was canceled more than 2 years ago, the partners of the former companies that had to account for where the weapons are, were unlocatable, which is why the fact was reported to the Department of Illicit Trafficking of Arms, Ammunition and Explosives (DEPTIAME) of the Organized Crime Investigation Division of the PNP.
The official also reported that the institution had been implementing a Work Plan with firearms control mechanisms; which have been reinforced based on the observations and recommendations made by the Comptroller's Office.
"This management since it became aware of this event, has not let a second pass for the investigations to continue their course and we have been implementing each recommendation to strengthen ourselves as an entity," he said after indicating that Sucamec maintains permanent contact with the police institution, to know the progress of the actions that allow locating the 70 weapons.
He also pointed out that Sucamec has been optimizing its procedures and will issue new Directives to improve control measures for the internment and / or seizure of weapons from canceled companies.
He also reported that a control mechanism will be launched soon that will allow online and real-time registration, of the sales of ammunition that the marketing houses deliver to holders with a license to carry weapons in the modalities of Personal Defense; and Security and Safety Service.
A similar registry will also be implemented so that companies that offer private security services comply with timely registration of the weapons and ammunition they have in their armories, an online system that allows them to report how many ammunition they have to deliver when they cease their operation.
Scope of the new Private Security Regulation
The spokesman of the Sucamec, also recalled, that on May 12 and after 8 years of long waiting, the Regulation of Legislative Decree No. 1213 that regulates private security services at the national level was approved. "This norm, which is in the implementation stage, will precisely strengthen the supervisory and sanctioning work that Sucamec did not previously have in the procedures related to the provision of private security service," he said.
In this regard, he assured that the Management of Private Security Services, within the framework of the Regulation of Legislative Decree No. 1213, has prepared a Table of Infractions and Sanctions of Private Security Services where actions such as those carried out by the aforementioned companies, would represent a sanction that requires a fine ranging from 10 to 50 UIT.
"From now on, in order to impose sanctions on future infractions committed by private security companies, it is necessary to conclude the 120-day adaptation period established by the aforementioned norm. That is, we are in a period of regulatory adaptation, in which we have been developing directives that allow the successful implementation and adaptation of the Regulation, "he said.
More than 5,<> weapons recovered so far this year.
On the other hand, he stressed that the current management of Sucamec has managed to strengthen control and supervision at the national level, which has made it possible to recover 5,817 firearms, as a result of the work articulated with the PNP and the Public Ministry.
"Sucamec has carried out 3,726 inspections so far in 2023, and continues to join efforts with allied institutions, to face citizen insecurity and forge a safe country together," he concluded.
