President Gabriel Boric He indicated this Thursday that the Government will make “every effort” to increase the number of Carabineros. This, in the face of criticism for the country’s security climate.
“In all the places where we go, yesterday in Bajo de Mena, in Puente Alto, they tell us: ‘we need more policemen’ and indeed, they are not invented out of nowhere,” said the President after being consulted about a letter signed by more than 40 mayors, in which they ask to promote a series of measures to improve the country’s security situation.
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“I want the police throughout Chile to know that they have the full support of the government to combat crime and drug trafficking and that we are going to work side by side with them,” added the head of state.
Likewise, he stated that they cannot “invent policemen out of nothing”, pointing out that they must have a training process. “But we are going to make every effort to increase the endowment,” he said.
At the same time, he recalled that, in coordination with Carabineros, 700 officers of the institution have been reassigned to the communes with the highest rates of violent crimes. Although he acknowledged that with this measure “we fell short”, he pointed out that the matter of security is a priority for the Executive.
