In the commune of La Florida, the President of the Republic, Gabriel Boric, together with the Minister of the Interior, Carolina Tohá, completed the delivery of 227 new police vehicles for Carabineros, thus advancing the strong injection of resources announced by the Government for recover operational capacity and overcome the deficit close to 55% in the provision of cars, patrol cars and trucks.
According to a statement from La Moneda, the Executive’s objective is to reach 2026 with 100% of the Carabineros fleet renewed, an intention that is in line with the 4.4% increase in the public order and safety budget for the period 2023. This increase is significant in terms of security and the main focuses are: recovery of public space and fight against drug trafficking and organized crime.
The Head of State said that “this delivery is not about taking a photo, it is about advancing in more security for neighbors who today have security as their main concern. Because that priority that you have in your homes is our priority as a Government ”.
The vehicles correspond to 215 of the “Replacement Project of the Alienated Territorial Operational Vehicular Park of Carabineros de Chile Stage II” plus 12 that are part of the Resource Transfer Agreement signed with the Undersecretary for Crime Prevention and Carabineros de Chile, in the context of the National Plan for Priority Neighborhoods (Somos Barrios).
The President assured that “our commitment is to recover all the public spaces, all the neighborhoods so that people can move about calmly, so that boys and girls can play without fear of crazy bullets, so that the State and civil society that, Chilean men and women, who in their great and vast majority are honest and hard-working people, let us win the battle against crime and recover the spaces that the drug trafficker has been gaining lately”.
To these 227 are added the 270 vehicles already delivered last November (90 deliveries corresponding to the 2021 budget delivered in 2022, plus 180 from the 2022 budget), with the remaining 186 pending for January 2023, renewal of the fleet financed through the Law Budget for the year 2022.
Also participating in the activity were the Undersecretaries of the Interior, Manuel Monsalve, of Crime Prevention, Eduardo Vergara, the Governor of the Metropolitan Region, Claudio Orrego; the delegate, Constanza Martínez, the mayor of Florida, Rodolfo Carter, congressmen and women parliamentarians.
