The government of President Gabriel Boric presented the bill that seeks to regulate the Rules for the Use of Force (RUF) in police and public order procedures. In this way, his entry into the Chamber of Deputies and Deputies materialized.
The news had been advanced by the Minister of the Interior, Carolina Tohá, and later confirmed by the head of Justice, Luis Cordero. The foregoing, within the framework of publication in the Official Gazette of the Naín-Retamal Law, which seeks to deliver a statute of legal protection to police, gendarmes and Armed Forces to use their service weapon.
From Congress, Minister Cordero stated that “the rules on the use of force provide certainty to everyone, to the citizenry, to the police and to the judges. They have general principles and a large part of their operation is related to the protocols that are approved by regulation.”
In this sense, the initiative seeks to update the current rules and standards in relation to the use of force, raising the current normative rank to a juridical-legal statute. Likewise, the measure seeks to complement the Criminal Code as well as the Military Justice Code, introducing a series of specific protocols that, until now, were issued by the Carabineros through circulars.
From the Interior they specified that, if approved, the initiative will have a complementary “fusion” with the promulgated norms of the Naín-Retamal Law. “It establishes legitimate defense and the fulfillment of duty as exemptions, in accordance with the recently approved initiative,” they pointed out from the portfolio, according to the slogan Radio Biobío.
It should be noted that the presentation of this reform was the original plan that the Government had to introduce modifications to the rules of the use of force in the context of police procedures. However, after the murders of Carabineros officials, the Executive changed its strategy and led it to discuss these changes through the merger of two parliamentary motions that did not have the support of La Moneda. Which led to the Naín-Retamal Law.
