In a ceremony at the National Police headquarters, the president informed that some 1,032 agents have been deployed as part of this plan in the leading troubled zones.

They are the Colon province in the Caribbean, one of the most dangerous regions; Panama Oeste, close to the capital; San Miguelito, a neighborhood with high insecurity levels; the Panama Canal zone; and other popular areas near the capital.

The strategy includes house-to-house and farm-to-farm checks in the most dangerous areas, Mulino said.

“All of this with a single goal: to make every Panamanian worker feel that peace and security are returning. The challenge is great; there has been a lack of leadership for many years allowing organized crime to thrive across Panama,” he said.

Official statistics state that of 556 homicides registered in the country in 2023, 19 percent occurred in Colon and 18 percent in San Miguelito, the second and third most violent region in this country, surpassed only by Panama, which reported 38 percent.

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