Undersecretary for Crime Prevention, Eduardo Vergarareported that during this coming Friday, August 12, the Government of the President Gabriel Boric will relaunch the Advisory Council for Police Reform after a pause in the administration itself.
In conversation on the show Zero tolerance of CNNChileVergara indicated that “what we did is what had to be done, which is to begin to evaluate what had been done to clearly understand at what point that process had been left off, which, by the way, does not correspond exclusively to the Ministry of the Interior, but the Carabineros had also made a lot of progress”.
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In this line, he specified that the Executive has carried out more than 10 meetings of the Technical Work Committee of the Reform. “This Friday the 12th we are going to install the Reform Coordinating Unit, as well as the Reform Advisory Council, where Carabineros participate, and the process is being carried out. We are going to relaunch the web page that day,” he said.
During this Monday, the undersecretary of the Interior, Manuel Monsalvecomplemented his colleague by pointing out that “reform is a way to strengthen institutions. Reforms are often seen as a threat, but precisely the tasks of training, entering the training schools of Carabineros de Chile, improving the civil servant career so that staying within the institution is effectively a stimulus, having better retirement programs, also having better training programs to improve police performance, are tasks that are typical of the discussion regarding reform”.
“What the Advisory Council is looking for is that the Government has a counterpart to the proposals it makes, therefore, that it not only be the voice of the Government and of the Government institutions regarding what should be done in the Carabineros institutions, but also that there is a space where there are people who have different visions that can be a counterpart to the proposals that arise from the work that the government teams are doing in terms of police reform,” he concluded.
