Riviera Maya, Q.R. — A budget increase of more than a billion pesos has been requested by the State Attorney General (FGE). The request was made Wednesday during the FGE’s presentation before the legislature.
According to the Fiscalía General del Estado (FGE) de Quintana Roo head Raciel López Salazar, 98 percent of the agency’s budget goes to payroll. Resources in the form of manpower is required to attend to operations.
He pointed out that this year, the FGE of Quintana Roo received a budget of 1.6 billion pesos, of which 98 percent is allocated to payroll for the creation of three prosecutor’s offices and 20 specialized prosecutor’s offices “that replaced the vice-prosecutor’s office schemes that operated before and that only served as preserves of power.”
He said he asked for a more robust budget for next year since he intends to build decent offices for workers of the agency, “but also decent offices so that people can go to file their complaints.”
On Wednesday, Raciel López Salazar appeared before deputies of the Justice Commission to speak about security results. During his report, he said 1,839 criminals have been arrested for high-impact crimes.
“No criminal group will be stronger than the state,” he said, explaining that these arrests were for crimes such as homicide, femicide, kidnapping, rape, human trafficking and extortion, among others.
He stated that the FGE has arrested 51 priority targets out of the 100 that make up the state’s Crime Atlas. He also said that 25 violent criminal groups were dismantled and more than 930 of their members arrested.
He reported that the agency carries out an average of 25 judicial orders per month, which to date since he took over, total 374 property searches. According to Salazar, 158 files have been opened resulting in 52 arrests and the rescue of 385 victims. Of the 101 extortion arrests, 89 remain imprisoned.
“Today I reaffirm my constitutional and ethical responsibility to firmly combat transnational organized crime and consolidate authentic and lasting security. We will not let our guard down. We will continue to pursue lawbreakers to stop violence throughout Quintana Roo,” he said.