2024-07-29 01:58:19
In addition to the reorganization of the Carabineros, the security plan for the Metropolitan Region will include immigration control operations.
The Minister of the Interior, Carolina Tohaannounced this Wednesday that More than 1,600 police officers will reinforce police work in the Metropolitan Regionas part of the plan to address the security crisis affecting the capital.
According to the details provided by the Secretary of State, there will be a total of 1,661 uniformed officers whose work will be reorganized with the aim of strengthening the work of Carabineros in the region.
Similarly, the chief of staff explained that as part of the work to address insecurity, From now on, police operations will be carried out in groups of five patrols..
Accompanied by the Undersecretary of the Interior, Manuel Monsalve; the Undersecretary for Crime Prevention, Eduardo Vergara; the Presidential Delegate of the Metropolitan Region, Gonzalo Durán; the General of Carabineros, Ricardo Yáñez; and the Director General of the Investigative Police (PDI), Eduardo Cerna, the Minister of the Interior explained Where will the new 1,661 carabineros come from? who will work in different units of the Metropolitan Region.
In this regard, he stated that “Some are new staff who increase the region’s staff. Others are staff who are reassigned from other functions.“.
“We will have a presence in public places, Intensified operations in risk areas and measures to intensify nighttime presence“We are going to have more oversight of immigration irregularities and we are going to have more oversight of weapons reported by the population,” he said on the subject.
Immigration control
The chief of staff then delved into the issue of irregular migration and stated that PDI detectives will carry out three operations each week focused on immigration controls.
In this regard, Carolina Tohá stated that this will be carried out “in the places where there are the greatest concerns, where we have indications that The presence of irregular migration and crimes associated with this phenomenon is concentrated“.
Streets Without Violence Plan
On this occasion, Carolina Tohá addressed the results of the Streets Without Violence Plan, and stressed that There was only a decrease in homicides in those communes where it was implemented..
“In a period where the actions that were carried out managed to stop the rise in homicides and make them recede at the national level, in the Metropolitan Region what we had was that we stopped the rise, But the setback only occurred in the communes where there was a Streets Without Violence Plan“, said the Secretary of State.
He added that the plan that the Executive is now implementing in response to the security crisis in the Metropolitan Region could not be addressed before because “We didn’t have the conditions we have today.“He mentioned the number of staff, resources and legal mandates, for example.