Mayor Victor Hugo Romo Guerra today promised a package of policies to protect domestic violence survivors, their livelihoods and their homes. Together with the Miguel Hidalgo city hall, Mayor Romo Guerra will protect survivors and their families by introducing a legislation which will allow survivors to take paid leave from work to attend to immediate safety needs without fear of penalty. They will also put housing lawyers in every Family Justice Center to aggressively defend survivors’ housing rights, and work with the city’s police department to root out chronic offenders by instituting new practices to ensure law enforcement targets resources on the highest priority abusers and contacts every victim to ensure safety after an order of protection has been violated.
“Domestic violence is a public safety menace in every neighborhood, affecting every population, and it’s by confronting domestic violence that we will end the vicious cycle that perpetuates it,” said Mayor Victor Romo Guerra. “We are sending a loud and clear message – we will not tolerate domestic violence, survivors have the City’s full support, and abusers must be held accountable. In the 21st century, those who have already suffered at the hands of those they love should never have to choose between their safety and a paycheck or their home.”
He reminded reporters that his Government Plan was based on a broad citizen consultation and it was the inhabitants of the mayor’s office who set the priorities for attending: Security, Mobility, Open and quality Government, Combating inequality and Reconstruction.
Lastly he informed that the new headquarters of the mayor’s office, “Edificio Life”, will allow savings of around 21 million pesos per annum in terms of income. Then he highlighted, in terms of security, that the greatest achievement yet was to receive the mayor’s office in the 13th place of the 16 demarcations and moved it up to the 8th place in just a year.
