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During September, the complaints for which the PAOT initiated a file grew by 40%
DANIEL ESCOBAR
CANTON GROUP
Mexico City.- After the mayor of Cuajimalpa, Carlos Orvañanos, introduced his ““Ranger Police” To prevent acts against the environment, investigations for anti-environmental acts increased in the demarcation, according to statistics from the Environmental and Territorial Planning Attorney’s Office (PAOT).
During the month of last September, the PAOT received 15 complaints for acts against the environment that allegedly occurred in the mayor’s office governed by Orvañanos Rea, and 13 of these were already admitted by the Attorney General’s Office still headed by Estela Guadalupe González Hernández.
This figure revealed by itself PAOT, It is almost 40 percent higher than that corresponding to the complaints received by the Attorney General’s Office last August, when the “Forest Ranger Police” had not yet been announced, and 11 complaints were received for acts against the environment in Cuajimalpa, of which two were not admitted and in one it was concluded that there were no ecological effects.
It should be noted that all the cases reported in September and that have already been admitted, are in an “investigation” phase, according to what the PAOT exposes in its open data.
The complaints made in the mayor’s office that Carlos Orvañanos Rea has governed again for a year, deal with damage to trees, irregular settlements, excess noise, and animal abuse.
At the beginning of September, the government of Orvañanos Rea presented this environmental police in order to prevent these acts, because according to their words “it is distinguished from other municipalities in terms of environmental protection.”
“We have been very persevering in our projects such as the first Ranger Police in the history of Mexico; it is about aligning priorities between the local government and Cuajimalpa,” declared the mayor at the opening ceremony.