Ten of the necklace or bracelet-shaped devices will be distributed until the municipality can install a more comprehensive ALE system that includes security cameras.
Geolocation devices on display
Jazmín Stengel (Chapala).- While waiting for the implementation of a full ALE program of security devices and cameras, the municipality is distributing 10 geolocation devices in the form of necklaces bracelets that women can use to summon help.The ALE Strategy which Chapala intends to implement locally is theJalisco state program to provide women who have been victims of recurring domestic violence with signaling devices and security cameras that can summon police to their location if they are attacked.
The Women’s Institute obtained more than half a million pesos for the purchase of the ten geolocation devices and two electronic tablets that will serve as monitors, to obtain the immediate location of victims under protection of gender or domestic violence.
The interim geolocation devices will be given to victims of high or recurrent levels of violence. When wearing the geolocator, a victim of gender or intra-family violence will only have to press the device to activate its location on an Institute monitor and alert the nearest patrol which should respond immediately.
The Institute’s budget also includes the salary for adding a second psychologist to the Institute’s staff, a purchasing purple patrol car, which will supplement the two patrol cars and central office already existing in the municipality, and uniforms for its patrol officers.
So far, the emergency system for protected persons (those with restraining orders or a history of domestic violence) responds to 27 to 35 people per week throughout the municipality, according to the report of Public Safety in Chapala. When Public Security receives a report of an assault, they go to the scene, neutralize the situation and accompany the victim to file an official complaint with the Public Prosecutor’s Office.
In cases where the victim foresees further issues with the aggressor, regular visits are made to the victim for the next 60 days. At the end of this period, if the circumstances of the situation do not improve, the service may be renewed.
Although the Women’s Institute and Municipal Public Security will be in charge of the geolocation devices, the Regional Public Prosecutor of Chapala determines which women should receive them. The municipal trustee, Gamaliel de Jesús Soto Pérez, also can decide on the need for a device in certain circumstances, explained legal advisor Diego Muñoz.
Protection and emergency services are available in case of gender or domestic violence to women, men and the LGBTTQ+ community, since the Women’s Institute, working directly with the Jalisco Secretariat for Substantive Equality between Men and Women to protect all citizens from domestic violence.
Translated by Christalle Dalsted
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