In the second half of the 21st century in an uncertain and changing environment in the economic and geopolitical sphere, organizations must adapt to changes, but to do so successfully they must have a Business Climate that allows them to develop, invest, promote research in the development of new products or services in order to be more competitive in the market and to be increasingly efficient and effective.
However, one of the great problems that organizations face in the world is the growing citizen insecurity, since this affects the Business Climate, by generating cost overruns for organizations on security issues at all levels, such as their facilities, material resources, human resources, information technology, among others, as well as negatively influencing the behavior of consumers, by limiting the demand for certain products that they consider can potentially be the subject of criminal acts in their various forms. To analyze this issue, I will take the Peruvian case as an example.
Citizen insecurity is considered the biggest problem in Peru. The fight against citizen insecurity in our country is a fundamental task of the Peruvian State, not only for fulfilling its constitutional duty to maintain and safeguard internal order, but also for the purpose of creating a climate of trust in the population and thus preventing it from negatively influence investors.
Currently one of the issues of greatest political debate in the country is declaring the city of Lima in Emergency in the face of the escalation of criminal violence in its various forms, in the various districts of the Capital city.
Regarding this, we must understand that the fight against citizen insecurity starts by facing corruption and counting on the active participation of the organized population in support of the National Police, the strengthening of the Municipal Serenazgo and investment in state-of-the-art technologies to monitor 24 hours a day the streets.
Likewise, it is necessary to combat cases of informality of the private security service, combat sources of informality and corruption in the acquisition or provision of firearms to criminals, and establish mechanisms to have a fair judiciary in cases of criminal acts..
Therefore, we must banish the currents of opinion of declaring the city of Lima in Emergency, so that the armed forces intervene in support of the National Police and restrict or suspend certain constitutional rights, such as the rights to freedom, to personal security, inviolability of the home and freedom of assembly and movement. This would be disastrous for the population and for the companies, we must also bear in mind that the troops of our armed forces by their training are prepared to face an external conflict, while the members of our National Police are prepared to maintain internal order.
Articles 165 and 166 of our Constitution specifically establish the purposes of our armed forces and national police respectively. Therefore, legally, our armed forces could not permanently support police work. A declaration of Emergency would not be the solution to combat citizen insecurity on a permanent basis and it would also expose our armed forces and our population to regrettable incidents with loss of innocent lives.
We must also banish the proposals of trying to limit or restrict the use of weapons to the civilian population to reduce criminal acts, because in addition to being unconstitutional, these approaches are completely wrong, since criminals source weapons from the black market, so such This measure would only harm honest citizens who wish to exercise their constitutional rights such as self-defense, legally obtaining their licenses to carry and use firearms.
In this sense, with an adequate strategy to face citizen insecurity, banishing wrong approaches that are more due to temporary positions of a political nature, than to technical and legal foundations we can reduce the rates of criminal acts in the city of Lima with the consequent benefit of in addition to giving tranquility to the population, creating a suitable and attractive Business Climate for both local and foreign investors.
