the deputy Lorraine Fries (CS), member of the Citizen Security Commission of the Lower House and former director of the National Institute of Human Rights (INDH), addressed the statements of the general director of Carabineros, Ricardo Yanez, who called on Congress to approve measures to strengthen police work. In this regard, the legislator called on him to be “more prudent, more professional, more temperate in his opinions.”
Let us remember that General Director Yáñez made a summons to Congress on Monday, after visiting the first corporal Alex Salazar -who passed away today- at the Concepción Regional Hospital. A drunk subject ran over the cash in the middle of a procedure, in the early hours of Sunday.
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“What the general director of the Carabineros did to Congress does not seem pertinent to me. Congress fulfills its functions, Congress is legislating on security matters. If he has any complaint regarding the lack or need to present these projects, this It is not done publicly, it is done directly with their hierarchical superior, who ultimately is the Minister of the Interior”, said the deputy Fries to The counter.
The Minister of the Interior, Carolina Toha, summoned Yáñez to La Moneda after the summons. After the meeting, held this Monday, the general director qualified his statements, but insisted that what is important is “the bottom line.”
“You can always improve the form of how one manifests or expresses your ideas, but here you have to worry about the substance,” said Yáñez.
Regarding these comments, Deputy Fries indicated that “they don’t seem to me either, because it’s not about improving the form, it’s also about changing the substance.”
“It is from him that the requirements must come to the Ministry of the Interior and Public Security to reinforce the Carabineros, their equipment, improve their professionalism, and if necessary, improve the bills,” the legislator continued.
“It cannot be that the director general is the one who calls on Congress to move forward with projects that are not necessarily those that could be being processed by the Executive. I would call on the director general to be more prudent, more professional, more temperate in his opinions It is not the first time and it would be great if it were the last,” he said.
The sayings of Yáñez
The general director of Carabineros, Ricardo Yanez, visited Salazar yesterday at the Concepción Regional Hospital. After that, he called on Congress to approve measures to strengthen police work.
“I invite all parliamentarians, for all the indications, for all the bills that have been sent to Congress, so that once and for all this law comes to light, where the field lines are clear. Where the carabineros do not have to hesitate, where the carabineros are not afraid of having to face criminals and make use of all the elements that the law gives them,” said Yáñez.
“Enough is enough. If we want to have a safe country and live in peace, let’s hand over the conditions, let’s hand over the tools,” he added.
Limits on the use of force
The former director of the INDH commented that the rules on the use of force by public officials are intended to “fairly limit or establish the framework within which the monopoly of force that has been given to them by citizens can be used. For example, they cannot be in an abusive manner, they cannot be outside of the exercise of functions, etc.
Along these lines, he explained that the international recommendation has always been to regulate these limits through bills or through a law, and for this reason several of the ruling party have raised this concern, it has also been said from some sectors of the right, raise it to legal status”.
“It seems to me that it deserves a broad discussion, and jointly establish those limits of application of force that in no case can violate human rights,” Fries said.
