The embassy of the United States in Bogota announced on Monday that it will raise a scheme of cooperation for the police of Medellin, a city overwhelmed by the war of gangs.

The antinarcotics director of the U.S. Embassy, Dann Foott, told local press that they will support policemen in this city with equipments, resources and the strengthening of security.

Foott said that the U.S. government is deeply worried about the increase of urban violence in Colombia in the last days.

Foott said this wave of violence is the result of the fragmentation of big criminal cartels and the new phenomenon of the drug micro-traffic, which affects several urban zones in the world.

“The government of the United States will not rest in topics such as the eradication and fumigation of illegal crops to defeat criminal bands,” Foott said.

The authorities of Medellin said the war of gangs that the city goes through has already taken the lives of 1,250 people and has left about 2,226 people displaced.

Another one of their concerns is that they are using the civil population as a shield when there is presence of authorities in the zones where there is conflict.

Last week members of a gang were taking revenge for the death of a gang member and 320 policemen and soldiers were sent to confront them and could not act because the gang bangers shielded themselves in the settlers of the zone.