The municipality of Vicente López incorporated a new fleet of vehicles—five Toyota Corolla Cross hybrid pickup trucks and five Kawasaki Versys 650cc motorcycles—to expand the operational capacity of the municipal patrol. The units, equipped with location technology and emergency systems, are already deployed on the streets.
With this purchase, local management aims to improve police presence and shorten intervention times in the event of insecurity or critical situations. The trucks, with lower consumption and greater maneuverability, are designed for urban patrol and rapid response tasks. The motorcycles, equipped with beacons, siren and automatic location (AVL), allow more agile entry into areas that are difficult to access.
“We added new units, not as an isolated measure, but within a comprehensive security system,” said Mayor Soledad Martínez, who once again raised the contrast with the provincial policy on the matter: “In Vicente López, the municipality invests and takes charge.”
The arrival of these units is part of a broader strategy that had its milestone this year with the inauguration of ESCUDO, the security center that integrated patrol dispatch, Civil Defense, SAME and Transit under one roof, and which functions as a unified control and dispatch center for the forces operating in the district.
In addition to this center, the current management mentions other recent movements: patent readers to expand the Digital Ring at the entrances; the installation of 360° cameras; the launch of 200 “Safe Points” distributed throughout the territory; and the progressive incorporation of non-lethal weapons.
For the municipality, all these measures are part of the same logic: increase the level of permanent urban control, anticipate suspicious movements and increase the possibility of capture in real time. The premise: that technology, combined with physical presence, reduces the operational advantage of criminal groups that move between jurisdictions.
Vicente López has been one of the districts in which the discussion about local responsibility for crime returned to the center. The municipal government maintains that the absence of a consistent provincial plan forced the municipalities to assume functions and costs that were not previously in their orbit. And that gap, as long as it persists, will be covered with local investment.
The incorporation of the new trucks and motorcycles once again shows this strategy: a reinforcement for a network that has been growing, with the stated objective of shortening the distance between the complaint and the first cell phone on the street, and improving the arrest rate in flagrante delicto situations.
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