The police may request the DNI (National ID) on the trains by decision of Patricia Bullrich
by the El Reportero’s wire services
The Ministry of Security launched a program that she baptized “Train Offenders.” It dismisses the presumption of innocence and authorizes the security forces to demand the identity document from any person they consider suspicious.
The Ministry of Security has launched a program that enables police, gendarmes and prefects to demand the identity document from anyone who travels on trains and whose physical characteristics may be considered suspicious of committing or have committed a crime.
The initiative legalizes the presumption of suspicion for wearing a face, skin color, a cap with a visor or wool, posture when standing, a way of looking, a run of a run, music that you listen to, a way of speaking and how much criteria you think of representative of the security forces who want to rely on Resolution 845/2019 signed by Patricia Bullrich.
The Minister of Security resolves:
ARTICLE 10. – The “TRAIN OFFENSERS PROGRAM” will be created, that will work in the orbit of this MINISTRY OF SECURITY, and that will have as its purpose the prevention of crimes in the System of public transport of passenger trains.
ARTICLE 20. – Instruct the police and security forces in order to maximize the collection and control powers that are proper in areas of income, egress, transit and / or permanence of people who use public transport on train trains. passengers, aiming, through the verification of their identity, the verification of the possible existence and / or validity of restrictive measures of a judicial nature.
The program was launched through its Official Gazette publication and bears the name “Train Offenders”, that is, it will monitor people who may commit an offense there, something that, incidentally, does not always imply a crime.
The recitals of the resolution explain that the purpose of the program is “crime prevention” only on trains that are used daily by 1.2 million workers traveling from the province of Buenos Aires to the Federal Capital.
It is not the first time that Patricia Bullrich focuses her train safety policies. Since the beginning of this year, when she launched the use of the questioned Laser guns, she said that one of the places of use of these weapons would be the railway stations. “On trains, people often stop and the policeman has no chance of getting out quickly if there is an aggression. He has to walk among people and, in that case, the use of a common weapon is more complicated than an intermediate one,” she said.
With “Train Offenders”, agents are entitled to request to any person “the presentation of the national identity document”, whose delivery “will be mandatory in all circumstances”, as established by the text disseminated by the Ministry of Security.
The data of the person will be consulted in a database, and if it is proven that he has a criminal record “they will be communicated to the relevant judicial authority, drawing a record” that will make it available to that authority. That is, at least, it will be retained.
However, the trains themselves will not be the only place where agents, gendarmes or prefects will ask for the DNI. There will also be control “in areas of entry, exit, transit and/or permanence of people who use public transport on passenger trains.” That is to say that the halls of stations, ticket offices, rest sectors, platforms and wagons will be practically militarized.
As she said with the Lasers, the Security portfolio maintains that “Offenders in Trains” seeks to “protect the freedom, life and heritage of the inhabitants” and put the magnifying glass on the “danger or modalities that compromise freedom and life of the people.
