PNP receives 12,000 more tear gas grenades from Ecuador to face protests (La República [Spanish] - 1/29/2023)

PNP receives 12,000 more tear gas grenades from Ecuador to face protests (Spanish)

When the government of Lenin Moreno faced popular rejection of the economic measures it enacted, the Ecuadorian police borrowed riot gear from the Peruvian National Police (PNP).

María Elena Hidalgo

The PNP has asked its counterpart in Ecuador for the return of a batch of 12,000 tear gas grenades, which it received on loan to respond to the wave of protests that broke out after former President Lenin Moreno launched a package of economic measures, on 19 May 2020.

The request follows news that the PNP had used nine tons of tear gas bombs on its citizens in 10 days of social protests.

 According to the weekly Hildebrandt en sus Trece, a previous shipment of 28,960 tear gas cartridges was purchased from Cóndor Industria Químic at a cost of $498,000 and arrived on board a L 100-20 Hercules plane on January 14, 2023.

Given shortages due to the repression of successive protests against the government of President Dina Boluarte, which have been continued for more than 50 days, the PNP decided to contact the Ecuadorian National Police (PNE) to return the borrowed grenades: tear gas that he had entrusted to them in an emergency context.

According to sources from the Ministry of the Interior, the batch of grenades was received by the Peruvian National Police on the border with Ecuador. Then the shipment was transferred to the Tumbes Airport, from where a Police Aviation aircraft made the transfer to Lima.

The current batch of tear gas grenades was mobilized with a security cordon to the warehouses of the Department of Arms and Ammunition, of the Logistics Division of the PNP, located in Rímac.

The grenades will be distributed in Lima and provinces according to the PNP's needs.

On January 23, the National Police “very urgently” requested the purchase of an additional 230,000 grenades and tear gas cartridges, in addition to other anti-riot items, due to the increase in social protests in various parts of the national territory. 

Faced with this emergency, the Minister of the Interior, Vicente Romero Fernández, announced that he is managing the acquisition of 100,000 tear gas projectiles so that the forces of order can continue fulfilling their work of quelling the constant social mobilizations in Lima and in the interior of the country.

On January 28, the Executive transferred S/22.9 million in favor of the Ministry of the Interior to contract the supply of riot control materials for the National Police of Peru, travel expenses and food for police personnel.

The transfer was approved by supreme decree published yesterday in the official newspaper El Peruano and bears the signatures of President Dina Boluarte, and the Minister of Economy and Finance, Álex Contreras.

Tags: #Peru #Protests #PNP #TearGas #Ecuador

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