General PNP José Antonio Zavala Chumbiauca is the new head of the Directorate against terrorism (Dircote) of the National Police. Zavala was promoted to general last year and comes from directing the Directorate for the Prevention and Investigation of Vehicle Theft (Diprove). He will now replace General Óscar Arriola.
In November 2022, the government of the then president Pedro Castillo he promoted Zavala and 21 other colonels to the rank of general; decision that entered into force on January 1 of this year. The supreme resolutions carried the signatures of the ex-president and his Minister of the Interior, Willy Huerta.
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In addition to José Zavala Chumbiauca, the newly promoted generals of arms of the police institution were Samuel Jesús Peralta Campos Julio Óscar Mariño Rip, Ghino Gerardo Malaspina del Castillo, Edgar José Horna Moreno, Edinson Roberto Hernández Moreno, and Javier Manuel Gonzales Novoa, among others. .
The new boss of the dircote He also served as head of the Tumbes Police Region and head of the Huaraz police division.
Now he will be in charge of the direction that allows preventing, investigating, denouncing and combating international or national terrorist organizations that carry out acts configured as a crime of terrorism and related in the country.
