Representative asks police superintendent to remove state‑paid security for ex‑governor after federal conviction; joint resolution filed

Representative Ramón Torres raised the issue during initial turns of the Sept. 25 House session, saying that one month after former Governor Wanda Vázquez Garcés pleaded guilty in federal court she still received police‑provided security paid by the Puerto Rico government. Torres said he filed a joint resolution assigned the number 188 asking the House and the Senate to issue an opinion and the governor to instruct the police superintendent to remove the paid escort.

Torres said it is “ilegal, injusto e inmoral” for a federally convicted person to receive security paid by the government and estimated the cost of the detail at approximately $380,000 per year. He told the chamber that the superintendent had said he would study the legal situation and possibly remove the escorts, but Torres told colleagues nothing had happened “a un mes de este evento.” He concluded by asking that the body press for immediate action.

Representative Luis Junior Pérez Ortiz responded on the floor, urging Torres to seek a direct meeting with the superintendent and to allow the superintendent time to respond; Pérez Ortiz said he expected the superintendent to provide the requested status report. The chamber did not take a recorded vote on the resolution during the session; the transcript shows the resolution was assigned number 188 and that Torres had filed it for the chamber’s consideration.

Action: Representative Torres said he filed a joint resolution (No. 188) requesting that the governor instruct the police superintendent to end the state‑paid security detail for the former governor. The transcript records the filing and public floor statements but records no final vote on that resolution in the Sept. 25 session minutes.

(Provenance: Representative Torres’s remarks began in initial turns at about 1:25 p.m.; resolution filing noted later in the morning business.)