The sectoral vice president for Citizen Security and Peace, Diosdado Cabello, led the celebration event on the occasion of the 15th Anniversary of the creation of the Bolivarian National Police, a body that has contributed to the proper functioning of the civic-military-police fusion, in the different stages and contingencies they have faced in recent years.
Cabello swore in the new police officials, those who have been promoted and those decorated in the performance of their duty to “protect the people of Venezuela at the cost of their own lives, if necessary.”
“Feel proud to be part of this institution created in revolution. “It is the best police in Venezuela and the world,” said the senior official at the beginning of the event.
Cabello gave a historical review of what the police were like in Venezuela. “We had a Metropolitan Police that had a historical record of abuses against the people… the security agencies were created to carry out the orders of the governments that repressed Puntofijism”
“Commander Chávez, lover of human beings and knowledgeable of all that history, decided to face that monster. We must remember that in 2002 there was a coup against Chávez and the vanguard of that coup was a remnant of the Armed Forces, the Metropolitan Police and the Disip,” he said.
Cabello highlighted that to complement the functioning of the police, the National Experimental University of Security (UNES) was created, which trains officials on a professional level and in their respective specializations. He reported that President Maduro has offered a building that will be used for medical care for PNB officials, which will come into operation in 2025.
“The best police in the world must have the greatest moral burden, they must earn the respect of their people, they must be the most honest, they must make people feel safe just with their presence. It has to be a different police force. There is no room for agents who practice dishonesty, there we must be inflexible,” he said.
President Nicolás Maduro sent a recorded message in which he congratulated PNB officials and urged them to continue training and offered better benefits for the protection of the police family. In addition, he asked to strengthen the peace quadrants, the perfect union between the people and their police. “To continue triumphing along the paths of peace… it is time for unity, it is time for revolution,” said the president.
For his part, G/B Rubén Darío Santiago, director of the Bolivarian National Police, recalled that in the first years of the creation of this body, it was made up of some officials from the defunct Metropolitan Police and other bodies, who “initiated “This dream that our Supreme Commander Hugo Chávez launched and today is throughout the national territory.”
He recalled that the officials of this body have shown their faces during different risk events for the country such as attempted coups d’état and other destabilizing processes such as the post-electoral conflict. “Today this Bolivarian National Police is one of the defenders of the Bolivarian revolution,” he said.
Currently, the PBN has 95,805 men and women throughout the national territory in active status, ready to protect and serve the Venezuelan population.
