José Rolando Portillo was Manager of Internal Affairs of the Superintendence of Tax Administration. He has a degree in Integral Security Administration and has two masters: one in public senior management and another in public safety.
The new official He said he will develop strategies to reduce Homicideswill analyze the work of the National Civil Police (PNC) and evaluate the results of security tentsDon the objective of implementing changes that improve citizen security.
He added that his work plan will be focused on strengthening the PNC, guaranteeing transparency and combating corruption in the Ministry of the Interior and its dependencies.
For homicide reduction, security tents with elements of the army are part of the strategy?
The idea is to do innovative things, strengthen the dependencies that are working well and, in which not, generate the necessary changes; Because we cannot deploy our police services in a random way and without any planning.
Without a doubt, citizen security is not only the responsibility of the Police, there is also the citizen and other institutions that generate a support and, in this case, the army can also generate support for dynamics where necessary.
The issue of collaboration (with the army) we will work. Collaboration with other ministries and areas (also) is necessary if we want to have a low homicide incidence.
What do we have to do? A collaborative, coordinated work and establish those patterns to focus our services. There is not necessarily a homogeneous criminal incidence throughout the Guatemalan territory. From that perspective, we are already doing analysis to generate impacts; They may be pilot projects that contribute positively to the decrease in homicides.
What are those projects that you have to implement in the short and medium term?
It is a challenge that I assume with a lot of commitment, courage and determination.
I consider that it is the opportunity to generate a change at the institutional level. The strengthening of capacities is one of the main axes of my administration: to improve the capacities of the National Civil Police.
Define a police service model oriented to the targeting of services. We have a criminal incidence, as we all know, and the PNC is the entity responsible for guaranteeing the safety of the inhabitants.
The PNC must articulate its efforts to guarantee life, but cannot do it alone. This is a call to all other specialized areas, services and units so that, through that police model, let’s manage these crises in the most professional and ethical way.
My plan is focused on transparency and integrity. We will not accept acts of corruption. Also influence those general directions that have corruption signs and identify the risk factors that can generate bribes, fraud or corruption, and from that measure try to mitigate them. Corruption, as we all know, is a factor that undermines not only the legitimacy of an institution, but also the economy of a country.
And with the PNC which plans has to strengthen it?
We have work tables at the strategic level and we have been in different spaces with the United States embassy, establishing a strategic management model in the PNC. The goal is, without a doubt, to guarantee the life of the inhabitants of the Republic of Guatemala.
We are doing an integral analysis, not only with cooperation, but also with the police dome and different authorities, how we strengthen the police service model, how we make our services more efficient and how we generate a decrease in criminal incidence.
Have you contemplated changes in the high controls of the PNC?
Without a doubt, changes must be made; Process reengineering is necessary to obtain positive results. We are aware that the police institution is very large and must have the necessary conditions to carry out its work. From that perspective, everything related to the budget and the provision of capabilities to the PNC is essential to develop its function.
Do these changes go through the current police dome?
Talking about changes right now is a bit hurried. Without a doubt, we must do an analysis, which we are already doing with the Minister of the Interior, because there are dynamics and changes that must be generated, not necessarily talking about the dome and controls, but in the work methodology.
From that perspective, we will generate work synergies, articulated groups and we will rely on results. This will be a management management, with performance evaluation, internal controls, integrity and transparency.
What are those strategies for the country’s prison centers? Will you coordinate the construction of Masagua prison, Escuintla, together with the prison?
Talking about the penitentiary system (SP) is a real challenge, a challenge … we have to see it from an integral point of view. The issue of reintegration and rehabilitation is fundamental in our society and structural factors, such as infrastructure, must be modified, strengthened and created the appropriate conditions.
If we do not generate that impact on the infrastructure, if we do not create those conditions in a SP that has an overpopulation of 300%, then we will not improve.
Without a doubt, there are important factors, such as communications, and others in which we have to exercise greater control in terms of transparency and integrity.
Telematic control could be another important element that would contribute to a better management of the SP. If it is necessary to evaluate performance, we will do it. If it is necessary to dismiss the personnel involved in corruption or bribes, we will also do it. That is a determination, it is a courage, it is an own seal that I bring from the perspective that things are done correctly, under models of transparency and integrity.
Without a doubt, the projects that are detained are going to promote them to have better conditions in the integration system.