2024-02-19 03:44:18
Joel Olmos called for a detailed review of this measure and the study of the powers that the military would have in the streets.
The mayor of La Cisterna, Joel Olmosreferred to the possibility that personnel from the Armed forces are intended to protect critical infrastructure in different parts of the country, especially in public spaces with high rates of incivility and crime.
The idea was raised during the first meeting of the National Security Council (Cosena)held on February 5, where Minister Carolina Tohá stated that “we have analyzed the possibility of complementing the police presence with the protection of perimeters of critical infrastructure so that the Armed Forces have additional deterrent protection“.
These would include “the La Cisterna Intermodal station, Central Station and the bus terminals“.
Regarding this, the mayor of La Cisterna stated that “it happens that the effect that this has had on border control, and also in the Southern Macrozone, is positively evaluated, but This essentially has to do with the control of public order“.
“It is a complex issue to address, because it has to do with how to deal with crime. For example, the experience of the intermodal is that Carabineros, together with the municipality, removed 25 street commerce carts in one week,” he added.
Regarding the same, he indicated that “the presentation of the military at Cosena also raised the doubt that protecting critical infrastructure is not the same as having control of public order. I can’t imagine a soldier confiscating a truck of sopaipillas“.
To this, Joel Olmos added that there is a difference in forces in cases of commission of common crimes, since “the military has weapons of war, so, What would happen in a confrontation situation between a pickpocket and a soldier?“.
The communal chief called to review this initiative in detail, and to establish a “framework of action to study the powers, given that The most effective policy in crime control has had to do with technology.with the reinforcement of police capacity, its equipment, its structure, and that of the special prosecution teams for the persecution.”
Finally, he proposed that The Armed Forces could focus on combating “violent crimes associated with the confrontation of organized crime”using their “police intelligence, to pursue drug trafficking assets and to carry out effective arms control, all of which are situations that are not associated with the military presence in public spaces.”