Mexiquense Private Initiative seeks to increase coordination work to improve security

Derived from the fact that during the third quarter of the year the perception of insecurity increased in a good part of the municipalities of Mexico in the National Survey on Urban Public Security (Ensu) of the inegi and that this can affect the economic competitiveness of the state, the business sector of the Mexico state He pointed out that more coordinated strategies should be carried out with the authorities.

This Sunday, the president of the Council of Chambers and Business Associations of the State of Mexico (Concaem), Gilberto Sauza Martínez, explained that the exercise that has been carried out in recent years between the productive sector and the state government in the different industrial points of the district has been a benchmark of good exercise.

For example, he explained that due to this alliance with the productive sector, a 38% reduction in insecurity rates has been achieved in recent months; “The actions of the authority are focused on points of risk.”

The leader of the Mexican businessmen stated that as Concaem They propose to replicate the information exchange model that has been carried out between the State Security Secretariat and the private sector in the areas where companies concentrate, so that more actions are carried out in all municipalities and not only in certain points.

What we are looking for is not only to improve the perception, but also to reduce the real rates of crimes committed in our entity. Involve people to take care of each other and assume the responsibility of sharing information to prevent other people from becoming victims of crime (…) By generating a value chain where all the links are coordinated and in communication with each other others,” he said.

For this reason, Sauza Martínez reiterated the call to civil society organizations and neighborhood groups to work in coordination with the state Security Secretariat to systematize the data and achieve better results.

According to the Ensu, Naucalpan it ranked third in the country where the population feels particularly vulnerable, with an index above 90 percent.

The perception of insecurity also increased in Ecatepec, Chimalhuacán and Tlalnepantla, all with 8 out of 10 people who consider that they could be victims of a crime, surpassed by Naucalpan where the figure rises to 9 out of 10.

Coordination works in CDMX

The Chamber of Commerce, Services and Tourism of Mexico City (kanak) also revealed that the coordination strategy with the local government has managed to reduce crime rates and the perception of insecurity.

In this regard, the president of the Canaco Mexico CityJosé de Jesús Rodríguez Cárdenas, highlighted that he carried out the Quarterly Survey of Security in the Commerce of Mexico City, corresponding to the second quarter of 2022. The study represents 80% of the businesses that operate in the city, with a level of 95 percent confidence.

“I want to recognize the Secretariat of Citizen Security, because we work in the 16 mayors in a precise manner, with the information provided, with workshops, with a police presence in the most complex and complicated places according to our survey, and the results are evident” , he pointed.

He highlighted that the perception of security in Mexico City increased 12.5 percentage points, since of the 1,250 members surveyed, 49.3% considered their perception to be good, while in the first quarter it was 36.8 percent.

The head of the Government of Mexico City, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, highlighted that from the Canaco study it was identified that the number of businesses that were victims of at least one crime decreased by 5.4 percentage points, compared to the first quarter of that year. , “a fact that had not been recorded in the last 12 years.”

The official pointed out that extortion -in modalities such as collection of flat rights and telephone calls-, decreased from 11.9 to 8.5%, from the first to the second quarter of 2022.

The assault on commerce fell 6.7 percentage points, as it went from 58.6% in the first quarter of 2022 to 51.9% in the second quarter of this year.

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