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Buenos Aires mayor Mauricio Macri said today that he had reached an agreement with President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner to keep the Federal Police operating in all parts of the capital.
The announcement came just days after Security Secretary Sergio Berni ordered the withdrawal of 5,000 Federal Police officers from neighbourhoods in the City of Buenos Aires where the Metropolitan Police are already operating.
The neighbourhoods in question are: Saavedra, Coghlan, Villa Urquiza, Villa Pueyrredón (Comuna 12), Nueva Pompeya, Parque Patricios, Barracas, La Boca (Comuna 4), Agronomía, Chacarita, Villa Crespo, Paternal, and Villa Ortúzar (Comuna 15).
“They are not leaving,” Macri said in a radio interview this morning, adding that he spoke with the president on Friday. “We reached a joint commitment to coordinate work in those comunas, and a commitment to start a dialogue to analyse how to implement a transfer. We think this will take some time.”
After Berni’s announcement last week, sources from the Metropolitan Police had claimed that around 4,800 officers were there to “collaborate with federal forces”, but that they do not have enough agents or cars to replace the Federal Police entirely.
According to information from the Security Ministry, there are 9,000 Federal Police officers working in the City of Buenos Aires, distributed among 53 precincts.
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