SMA News: Don't automatically answer the door

[Doyle Phillips]

Sun Feb 10, 2019 9:58 am (PST) .
Posted by: "Victor Guzman" vguzmansma
Translation auto

Foreigner is victim of violent assault in Villa de
los Frailes, municipal police arrived 5 hours
later

San Miguel de Allende.- A foreign resident of 70
years of age, was the victim of a violent assault
at noon last Wednesday in Villa de los Frailes.
Despite making the report immediately to public
safety, they took five hours to reach the site.

Last Wednesday, at approximately 12 noon, a
70-year-old resident was thrown to the ground at
her home by a masked individual who managed to
enter through an open door, a gun was placed
behind her head. Three men, who had been sitting
in a Dodge van outside the house in "Los Frailes"
entered the house and quickly searched the
property for valuables. They left almost as
quickly as they arrived, with a small amount of
cash, a television, a computer and a backpack.

Fortunately, the woman was unharmed. She
immediately tried to call 911, even though her
Spanish is understandable, she spent 15 minutes
talking to the operator to give her directions on
how to locate the address.

A few minutes later her husband arrived and both
waited for more than an hour for the arrival of
some element of public security, at the insistence
on 911, the operators only responded that "they
were on their way".

At about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, the couple
decided to go to another house to feel safe, there
they offered refuge and they began calling the
authorities again and David Bossman was asked for
support.

Until David's intervention, General Eddy decided
to contact them at 5:00 pm and arrived at the home
of those affected along with three municipal
police patrols, the General requested to see the
911 calls and the first one was checked at 12: 18
hours.

At night, the judicial investigators arrived at
the home to process the scene and take evidence
such as fingerprints and graphic records, the
woman presented her formal complaint to the Public
Ministry.

The municipal government assured with the purchase
of new patrols the response time to an emergency
would be reduced, in November they said, it took
less than 12 minutes to attend each report even in
rural areas.

--Victor Manuel Guzman