Salvador registers a 26% reduction in homicides.
"It is important to highlight the commitment and recognize the work of all our military police, civil police, and forensic police in achieving these results," says the head of the State Public Security Secretariat (SSP), Maurício Barbosa; for him, the results are beginning to appear and demonstrate that the Pact for Life "is on the right track."
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Data from the State Secretariat of Public Security (SSP) reveals that crimes against life decreased by 14% in Salvador, from January to May 2013, compared to the same period in 2012. There is a 26,3% reduction in statistics in the Metropolitan Region (RMS) when comparing the same periods.
In Salvador, the largest reduction in intentional lethal violent crimes (CVLI) – intentional homicide, bodily injury, and robbery followed by death – was in the Integrated Public Security Area (AISP) of Boca do Rio, with a rate of -53,1%. Dias D'Ávila was the municipality in the Metropolitan Region where the largest decrease occurred, -54%.
"It is important to highlight the commitment and recognize the work of all our military police, civil police, and forensic police in achieving these results," says the head of the SSP (Secretariat of Public Security), Maurício Barbosa, in an interview with the newspaper Tribuna da Bahia.
According to him, the results are starting to appear and demonstrate that the Pact for Life, the state's security policy, is on the right track.
The Pau da Lima Integrated Security Area (AISP), which encompasses the surrounding neighborhoods, was second in Salvador in reducing crimes against life, showing a rate of -44%, followed by the Integrated Center of Action (CIA), with -39,4%. The Integrated Areas of Simões Filho, with -32,2%, and Lauro de Freitas, with -30,4%, were, respectively, in second and third place in the reduction of crime rates in the Metropolitan Region.
According to the SSP (Secretariat of Public Security), the AISPs (Integrated Security Areas) of Nordeste de Amaralina, Periperi, and Barra showed the lowest performance in Salvador. In the RMS (Metropolitan Region of Salvador), the targets set for the AISPs of Vera Cruz/Itaparica and Pojuca/Mata de São João were not met. Secretary Maurício Barbosa announced that the actions in these regions will be reviewed "so that the rates follow the same pace of reduction as the other AISPs."