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| Ecuadorian Police General Commander Resigns |
| 2010-10-02 |
| (Prensa Latina) Ecuadorian Police General Commander, Freddy MartÃnez, resigned publicly on Friday saying that "a commander who has been attacked and disrespected by his subordinated can not continue to lead the institution". According to the public agency Andes, General Florencio Ruiz will assume command of the police until the President designates the holder. In a short address, MartÃnez said that because of the seriousness of the matter he didn't summit his resignation on Thursday. "I wanted to hand in my resignation Thursday, but I didn't consider appropriated, it was a critical situation, because there was the President's security to think of, it was logical that I stayed until the end of the day", he explained. MartÃnez regretted the casualties and the maimed of both the police and the civilians. On the other hand, he asked the President to study the Public Service law that, according to Martinez, does affect the police, whose duties are not similar to those of public servants. "I'm afraid that there were infiltrators intending to destabilize the Police and there we found pseudo-coppers with their faces covered, hiding in the anonymity as people who are outside the law do, so I presume they were not police", he said Moreover, he stressed and thanked the Special Operations Group (GOE)'s work, who acted faithfully and with discipline obeying their Commander's orders and even participated in the President's rescue. |
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