“This Bolivarian National Police, the Guard, the Cicpc, all State agencies, the Dgcim and the armed forces have had difficult days, since they ended the Bolivarian revolution after the departure of President Hugo Chávez, but Chávez left what had to be done in the Constitution,” said the Minister for the Interior, Justice and Peace, Diosdado Cabello, at the event for the “Strengthening of the GNB, CPNB, Firefighters and Civil Protection.”
Cabello recalled that in previous governments they even murdered young people in the streets “for a pair of brand name shoes, in the late 80s and early 90s here in our Venezuela, we were at a level of social decomposition, and that stopped it. with the arrival of Commander Hugo Chávez,” he said. He added that the people always had hope that things could be done well.
Minister Cabello maintained that one of the things that Commander Chávez entrusted to them “was a police force that was united and amalgamated with the people, that they feel that this police force belongs to them and that there is no fear when seeing a checkpoint on the street.” In this regard, he stated that it is a line that must be followed, as President Nicolás Maduro has ratified, of the “popular-military and police fusion,” to make it a reality.
He pointed out that they carry out joint operations between the people, the armed forces and the police forces, and “in addition to the operations, it should be day-to-day and be supported by the harmonious relationship between a people that trusts its security agencies and these to take care of human beings. and not to goods.” He stressed that the latter is the concept they had of the police and that is why the repression of February 27 and 28, 1989 occurred.
“Armed forces and the police came out to defend property, instead of taking care of our people, but today the security agencies must be in charge of our people and that is why we have a campaign to make the young people of our neighborhoods feel the love and desire to be police officers,” through comprehensive training, he mentioned.
The senior official stressed that this new form of education in security officials must go with the awareness that “we are facing North American imperialism and that the revolution has defeated them so far, but we need to consolidate that victory.”
It is worth remembering that the President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro, delivered a series of provisions to the GNB, CPNB, Firefighters and Civil Protection, an action that Cabelló classified as excellent, since “it is going to help us a lot, it gives us mobility and it allows us to do work in the neighborhoods and communities, at the same time respond to attacks on our country and whoever tries to attack us will find a forceful response,” he stated.
Finally, he highlighted the commitment of the national government to the State security officials, “I am sure that good things are coming for the security agencies.”
For his part, the general in chief and operational strategic commander of the armed forces, Domingo Hernández Lárez, maintained that in the last three years “it has been the limit of the union between the different police forces and the civic-military police fusion, together to morality and lights.” The military chief stressed that the armed forces are providing protection and social peace to the people in the three thousand quadrants of peace that currently exist.
