"Lavras remains a very safe city," says Lieutenant Laís after two homicides over the same weekend
Military Police officer says the crimes had personal motives and that most cases happen inside homes, where police are not present
Automatically translated from Portuguese. Read the original in Portuguese
Lavras registered two homicides over the last weekend, bringing the year's total to six, according to Tuesday's (10) edition of Revista da Cidade on Rádio Cultura. Even so, Lieutenant Laís, of the Military Police (PM), defends the city's safety. "Lavras remains a very safe city," she said on the program.
According to the officer, the two weekend crimes had personal motives. For a security problem to arise, she explained, someone willing to commit a crime, a vulnerable victim and a place without surveillance would have to come together. Many homicides, however, happen inside homes. "Where we cannot be is inside the criminal's mind," she stated.
The lieutenant recalled that the PM is the only force present 24 hours a day, seven days a week, in every municipality in Minas Gerais. As an example of the sense of security, she cited university students who walk home from weekend parties without fear of armed robbery.
According to her, police technically analyze the circumstances of each crime in order to plan prevention.
Watch the excerpt from Revista da Cidade in this article's video.
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