Miami commissioner wants increased security after office ransacked

MIAMI – The particular person or individuals accountable for ransacking the Miami Metropolis Corridor workplace of Commissioner Manolo Reyes haven’t been caught.

Following the incident, Reyes desires to make safety a precedence at Metropolis Corridor and mentioned he’ll handle it on the subsequent fee assembly.

Because the investigation into who perpetrated the crime continues, Miami police launched photographs following the unauthorized entry displaying image frames of Reyes’ relations toppled over and drawers left open.

Police dusted for prints and are poring via safety cameras.

Metropolis Corridor was open over the weekend as a consequence of early voting to fill former commissioner Ken Russell’s seat, so individuals had been filtering out and in of the constructing.

“That is very mysterious to me,” Reyes mentioned.

Miami Mayor Francis Suarez commented on the matter Tuesday.

“At any time when there’s a safety breach, we all the time have a look at all of our protocols to see what different assets we might deliver to bear to verify it doesn’t occur sooner or later,” Suarez mentioned.

Suarez mentioned there aren’t cameras within the hallways that result in commissioner workplaces, however it’s one thing he’s contemplating.

“We’ve got inside, when it comes to the precise space the place individuals converse as a part of the method, however we don’t have inside cameras, we simply by no means have all through the historical past of Metropolis Corridor, however which may be one thing that we have a look at now,” he mentioned.

Reyes mentioned he desires to make safety a precedence at Metropolis Corridor.

“This can be a public constructing and other people ought to know who is available in and who comes out,” he mentioned. “I directed town legal professional to draft laws directing the chief of police to investigate safety round right here and the place now we have to put in cameras and completely different safety programs that must be monitored by the police departments.”

Reyes doesn’t know the way the remainder of the commissioners really feel in regards to the subject, as a result of he mentioned he hasn’t heard from any of them following this incident.

The subsequent fee assembly is on March 9.