QCOSTARICA — The Organismo de Investigación Judicial (OIJ) – Judicial Investigation Agency – presented for the first time a heat map on how criminal groups are distributed in Costa Rica.
Randall Zúñiga, director of the OIJ, said that at the moment they have 155 dismantled criminal groups and 112 gangs that are pending.
The map was achieved by marking the areas of influence where each of them is located, allowing a geographic tour in areas of attention.
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“Look at Puntarenas where there is a significant concentration. Also in Ciudad Quesada and in San Ramón, Alajuela, and evidently in San José where there is a super concentration. Cartago and Turrialba, all that is the part of Limón, Pococí, Guápiles, and the part of the South Zone bordering the border,” the OIJ chief summarized.
Zúñiga said that they are managing to intervene 50 groups a year, a rate close to one large gang per week. OIJ’s map of gang hot spots.
The OIJ’s eye on two particular areas
Ironically, the areas without hot spots on the map are the ones that are most worrying the OIJ.
These are Corcovado in the South Pacific and the Barras de Colorado, in the North Caribbean. That is where boats with drugs could arrive and be the penetration zones for the country.
Added to this is the concern about the gaps they have on the Northern Border.
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“We have an (office in) Liberia, but Liberia is an hour and a half from La Cruz or Peña Blancas. And let’s be honest, any investigator who has an interest in traveling to Peña Blanca will do so when they can,” explained the head of the OIJ.
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