The Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, has defended this Monday that Madrid is "safe", highlighting that the police device to reinforce violent youth gangs has left

a balance of 37 detainees and 3,000 identified.

In statements to the media at a press conference, Grande-Marlaska highlighted the fact that in the three years of Pedro Sánchez's government,

the crime rate fell eight points in the capital,

in addition to increasing the number of Police officers by more than 750 National.

Despite the fact that some police unions maintain that the changes in this rule harm action against violent gangs, the Minister of the Interior has defended the repeal of the reform of the Organic Law on Citizen Security, known as the 'gag law', highlighting that it was approved in 2015 with the "roll of the PP".

In this sense

, he has underlined that the police action makes it possible to speak of Madrid as a "safe" region,

alluding to a weekend that has been "quiet" thanks, according to him, to the fact that work has been going on for "a long time" in the preventive plan against violent youth gangs and organized crime.

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