According to El Dia newspaper, a high-level police official has explained to them that the National Police has begun to restrict information about violent crimes that in the past were regularly shared with the press.
The Police reports had confirmed the increase in crime, many of which are captured on security cameras, but for the last few weeks the media has not been given access to the information.
The source told El Dia that the Police is now providing limited information and department heads are no longer allowed to speak to the media directly. All information coming from the National Police must now originate in the Police Public Relations Department.
This change in policy coincides with the decision of the National Police not to allow daily reporting of the Easter Week casualties, but simply to report them at the end of the week via a press conference, which has led to doubts in the accuracy of the figures, as reported in El Dia.
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El Dia
19 April 2017
