National Anti-Kidnapping Plan activated to combat extortion and organized crime in Venezuela

The National Anti-Kidnapping Plan in the short term, will consolidate actions to include criminals who are abroad, in the integrated Interpol system and strengthen the patrimonial investigation against criminal organizations that are dedicated to kidnapping and extortion.

Commissioner General Humberto Ramírez, deputy minister of the Integrated Criminal Investigation System, reported that with the specialized units of the Scientific, Criminal and Criminal Investigations Corps and the General Directorate of International Police, they established a road map for strengthening operations against these crimes.

Moreover, he pointed out that were discussed the proposals related to the optimization of the procedures carried out by the investigative agencies, so that, through international cooperation, can be beaten structured organized crime groups operating in transnational networks.

The vice minister agreed to strengthen the patrimonial investigation, as a methodology to neutralize the actions of these criminal gangs by affecting the economic patrimony acquired through their criminal activity, as reported the CICPC press release.

It was known that at the work journey participated Col. Bruno Mattiussi, General Director of the International Police, C / G Juan Pablo Peñaloza, Director of the Criminal Investigations Unit and General Commissioners Alexis Herrera, Director of Investigations Against Organized Crime, Darwin Echeverría, Head of the Division against Kidnapping, and Jesús Andrade, head of the Division against Extortion.